> -----Original Message-----
> From: Josef Karthauser [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, July 07, 1999 11:53 AM
> To: Ladavac Marino
> Cc: Brian Somers; Mark Thomas; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Wayne
> Self
> Subject: Re: userland ppp - startup
>
> On Wed, Jul 07, 1999 at 11:46:27AM +0200, Ladavac Marino wrote:
> >
> > > Something like this should do it. It may be nice to also allow
> the
> > > authname/authkey to be specified on the command line so that they
> > > can easily be set in rc.conf, by hand or by sysinstall.
> > >
> > [ML] You do not really want these on the command line for
> > everyone to see with ps. (nor in rc.conf for everyone to see with
> e.g.
> > cat)
>
> Hmm... how to do this then? The sppp setup code in rc.* allows
> username/password
> to be specified. Can it be done in the environment then? (If rc.conf
> is visable
> then the sppp config gives usernames and passwords away as it stands
> today.)
[ML] Don't know about sppp, but the only halfway secure way to
keep this sensitive data is in a file readable by root, and having the
program which needs it setuid root. Sounds a lot like
/etc/ppp/ppp.conf, doesn't it?
The secure way would be not keeping the info at all :)
/Marino
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