Subject: Re: password visible???
To: Frederick Bruckman <fb@enteract.com>
From: Bill Studenmund <wrstuden@loki.stanford.edu>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 02/04/1998 09:14:56
On Wed, 4 Feb 1998, Frederick Bruckman wrote:

> The kit I downloaded a few months ago left the password visible in
> /var/log/messages, which is world readable. The chat manpage has the answer
> to that dilemna--include the control sequence ``\q'' at the end of your
> password string.

That's a good suggestion. Another one would be to turn off debugging. If
your ppp connection is working fine, you don't need to log any of what
chat is doing.

Take care,

Bill