Subject: Re: PAP
To: Jeffrey Ohlmann <jaohlma@bgnet.bgsu.edu>
From: Bill Studenmund <wrstuden@loki.stanford.edu>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 04/21/1997 21:45:33
> 
> 
> 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).

Yea!

> 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?

Does anyone else use your computer? If so, they can read the pap secrets
file and thus get your dialin password.

To fix, man chmod.

Take care,

Bill