> >This is very bad ! With the \q at the end, the password is shown in
> >files /var/log/ppp.log and /var/log/messages, which are readable by
> >everyone by default. You should only specify \qabcdefg so that the
> >password is replaced by a string of question marks in log files.
>
> It would ha
pchat: Psychic Chat
===
This is to announce the upcoming release of the new _pchat_
replacement for chat(1), part of ppp 2.2.0f for Linux. There are
still a few bugs to be worked out, but I'm confident that in a few
days it will be
>> Following is
[snip]
>This is very bad ! With the \q at the end, the password is shown in
>files /var/log/ppp.log and /var/log/messages, which are readable by
>everyone by default. You should only specify \qabcdefg so that the
>password is replaced by a string of question marks in log files.
> Michel Beland wrote:
> >
> > > word \qabcdefg\q
> >
> > This is very bad ! With the \q at the end, the password is shown in
> > files /var/log/ppp.log and /var/log/messages, which are readable by
> > everyone by default. You should only specify \qabcdefg so that the
> > password is re
Michel Beland wrote:
>
> > Following is
> > an example of my ppp.chatscript.
> >
> [ ... ]
> > word \qabcdefg\q
>
> This is very bad ! With the \q at the end, the password is shown in
> files /var/log/ppp.log and /var/log/messages, which are readable by
> everyone by default. You should
> Following is
> an example of my ppp.chatscript.
>
[ ... ]
> word \qabcdefg\q
This is very bad ! With the \q at the end, the password is shown in
files /var/log/ppp.log and /var/log/messages, which are readable by
everyone by default. You should only specify \qabcdefg so that the
passw
> > say the line is not 8 bit clear and that bit 7 is 0. What does this
> This often happens when you don't get past the "chat" with the other
> modem to log in. When you try to connect to a host which prints out
Just to underscore a common case: if your username and/or password
aren't right, yo
R. Chris Ross wrote:
>
> I have a Debisn 1.2 system which I had been using on the net at
> one time. For various reasons I had to stop using it and now I am
> trying to get it going again however there is a problem with PPP. In
> the ppp.log file the dymamic ip addresses are acknolaged and
R. Chris Ross wrote:
>
> At other places amd at the end there are ppp.log entries that
> say the line is not 8 bit clear and that bit 7 is 0. What does this
> mean? At some point my ISP's system was taken out of service for
> maintainance but it may have been at that point that I started
> r
I have a Debisn 1.2 system which I had been using on the net at
one time. For various reasons I had to stop using it and now I am
trying to get it going again however there is a problem with PPP. In
the ppp.log file the dymamic ip addresses are acknolaged and a lock
established then th
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