On Wed, 30 Oct 1996, Peter Seebach wrote:

> No!  Never *ever* spawn pppd without forcing authentication... Evil!
> Bad!  Dangerous!
> 
> (Just speaking for our configuration, where this would absolutely eliminate
> security.)

Well, theoretically if we spawn it with the `auth' flag the peer
will have to authenticate itself just like it would at a login
prompt.

(This is not to say that I'm about to write this code. And also
not to say that this shouldn't be something optional that has to
be explicitly enabled.)

cjs

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