Subject: Re: PAP
To: Jeffrey Ohlmann <jaohlma@bgnet.bgsu.edu>
From: John Duncan <jddst19+@pitt.edu>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 04/22/1997 01:22:40
At 11:40 PM 4/21/97 -0400, Jeffrey Ohlmann wrote:
>
>A miracle happened -- I got a ppp connection established!  (I'm not yet
>sure how ... I was debugging my script and I must've gotten something
>right).
>
>I have a question relating to PAP and the ppp-secrets file.  Since I added
>that file, I get the following warning during the connection process:
>
>	Warning - secrets file /etc/ppp/pap-secrets has world and/or group
>access
>
>I have to guess that this is bad.  Is it really?  And how can I change it
>so that I don't get this message?
>

chown root:wheel /etc/ppp/pap-secrets should work while you're root.

-John
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