Hi,
At 11:01 PM 12/2/98 -0500, brian beuning wrote:
>We run a Linux box with diald and masquerading as our home gateway system.
>At some point someone got ahold of our ISP password and was using it. They
I think leaving /etc/ppp/pap-secrets file (in case of PAP authentication)
or the chatscript file (in case of chat login) as world-readable will be a
very easy way for people who have access to one's system to get the ISP
password without even having to do any hacking of root account.
regards,
-- Santosh
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