Tom Snell wrote:
WvDial indeed uses /etc/wvdial.conf to pick up the username and password, but note that the password is not encrypted, which I would think might pose a security hole. Any comments?
Put "Stupid Mode =yes" in wvdial.conf, this forces a pap login, without showing the password onscreen, then change permissions on pap-secrets to read-write only by root. This will prevent any users at your console from seeing your password, yet they can still dialout if in the dialout group. The pap-secret file isn't sent encrypted, but at least the password never is shown on the screen. - To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e Check out the SuSE-FAQ at <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/</A">http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/</A</A>> and the archiv at <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html</A">http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html</A</A>>