Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1377 mails)

[Anthony.Schlemmer@xxxxxxx (Anthony Schlemmer)]

I missed this start of this thread but are you using "chat" to handle
the login sequence for "pppd". If so, are you using the "-v" argument
with "chat"? I use the "-v" flag when I debug a login script but then
take it out once the script is debugged so the userid and password no
longer get wrtten to the "/var/log/messages" file..

Leon McClatchey wrote:
> 
> alexm wrote:
> 
> > I think only root can view /var/log/messages though.
> > Since root can do anything, I would not worry about that.
> >
> 
> Actually, anyone that belongs to the group "root" can view that file, but
> that is dependent on how you have the attributes set.  I do know that
> back when I was first setting up my ppp scripts for multiaccount setups,
> in the script I would have it set up to monitor that file to watch the
> chat script (to bad there isn't a way to single step a script?) so that I
> could watch and see where the errors were.  At that time, the pop
> password did not show up (I was using PAP authentication) and for the
> regular dialup (no demand) it still doesn't do it, but whenever I use
> dial-on-demand, even though PAP authentication is still being used, the
> password does show up?).  It is a security hole for sure:-(
> 
> > alexm
> >
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> Leon McClatchey
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Tony


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