Subject: Re: password visible???
To: CTAPYXA <ctapyxa@ucsd.edu>
From: Bill Studenmund <wrstuden@loki.stanford.edu>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 02/03/1998 15:00:44
On Mon, 2 Feb 1998, CTAPYXA wrote:

> I guess I messed up something in my pppd setup, now whenever I enter a
> password for ISP connection it is visible. I am the only one using this
> machine, but still, it ain't supposed to be so.
> 
> What do I have to check/fix? I don't even know where to look...

What ppp setup are you using? Who can see your password?

The kit I put together on puma keeps the passwords in a file readable only
by root, so no one else can see them.

Take care,

Bill