On Tue, 22 Apr 1997 01:22:40 -0400,
John Duncan <jddst19+@pitt.edu> wrote:
> At 11:40 PM 4/21/97 -0400, Jeffrey Ohlmann wrote:
> >	Warning - secrets file /etc/ppp/pap-secrets has world and/or group
> >access
> 
> chown root:wheel /etc/ppp/pap-secrets should work while you're root.

Sorry but no, it shouldn't...  The phrase "world and/or group access"
means you gave the file read permission by group and/or other.  IOW,
the file's permission bits look like this when viewed with ls:

r??r??-??  1 root  wheel  ... /etc/ppp/pap-secrets
r??-??r??  1 root  wheel  ... /etc/ppp/pap-secrets
r??r??r??  1 root  wheel  ... /etc/ppp/pap-secrets

(where ? denotes "don't care")

Probably the _right_ permission is 600 (rw-------).

Ken