On 15-Dec-97 Stephen Hardman wrote: >This is a bit old, but someone else noticed this and then it >started happening on my machine. > >The default logfile (/var/log/ppp.log) is world readable by default. [...] >Dec 14 16:43:15 gateway chat[362]: Password -- got it >Dec 14 16:43:15 gateway chat[362]: send (MyPassWoRd^M) > >So it seems it is not hiding the sent password as it should >do when the password is preceeded by \q in /etc/ppp.chatscript. If you put \q in the previous line eg.: -8<--- OK ATDTisp-number ogin: \qMyUsername assword: MyPassword -8<--- It worked for me this way. This may be a bug in pppd but the 'workaround' is easy. :) BTW in my opinion it's better to use PAP etc... C'ya! Peter Tarbaj
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