Re: PPTP VPN broken

2010-02-25 Thread Greg Woods
On Thu, 2010-02-25 at 11:30 -0500, Tom Horsley wrote: > it just happens to be mandated by the IT department I figured it was something like that, but I thought it was still important to point out the known weaknesses of PPTP so that someone else who happens on this thread doesn't decide that set

Re: PPTP VPN broken

2010-02-25 Thread Tom Horsley
On Thu, 25 Feb 2010 09:24:00 -0700 Greg Woods wrote: > If you really care enough about security to be using a VPN connection in > the first place, you really don't want to use PPTP. Most of us users don't care one particle about using it, it just happens to be mandated by the IT department who ar

Re: PPTP VPN broken

2010-02-25 Thread Greg Woods
If you really care enough about security to be using a VPN connection in the first place, you really don't want to use PPTP. It is riddled with security flaws (that have been very well known for more than a decade) to the point where it is only slightly better than sending data in the clear: http:

Re: PPTP VPN broken

2010-02-25 Thread Andrew Gray
On Thu, 2010-02-25 at 07:19 -0500, Tom Horsley wrote: > On Thu, 25 Feb 2010 11:28:46 + > Andrew Gray wrote: > > > Any idea when PPTP updates are coming out to fix PPTP VPN > > As a work around you can manually connect by invoking > pppd as root from command line, something like: > > pppd c

Re: PPTP VPN broken

2010-02-25 Thread Felix Schwarz
Am 25.02.2010 12:28, schrieb Andrew Gray: > I updated to ppp 2.4.5 on the 25 February and it has broken PPTP VPN > working > > Plugin /usr/lib64/pppd/2.4.4/nm-pptp-pppd-plugin.so is for pppd version > 2.4.4, this is 2.4.5 An updated version of the pptp plugin has been pushed today: http://admin.fe

Re: PPTP VPN broken

2010-02-25 Thread Tom Horsley
On Thu, 25 Feb 2010 11:28:46 + Andrew Gray wrote: > Any idea when PPTP updates are coming out to fix PPTP VPN As a work around you can manually connect by invoking pppd as root from command line, something like: pppd call updetach Probably need to setup some route commands and maybe adjus

PPTP VPN broken

2010-02-25 Thread Andrew Gray
Hi Feb 25 09:22:15 Updated: ppp-2.4.5-2.fc12.x86_64 I updated to ppp 2.4.5 on the 25 February and it has broken PPTP VPN working Plugin /usr/lib64/pppd/2.4.4/nm-pptp-pppd-plugin.so is for pppd version 2.4.4, this is 2.4.5 Checking rpm -qa I see I have :- NetworkManager-pptp-0.7.996-4.git2009