Re: debian pppd chatscript

From: TARBY (tarbyat_private)
Date: Tue Dec 16 1997 - 08:40:28 PST

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    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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