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Re: world readable .../messages and the pon script

Under the ESCAPE SEQUENCES section of the chat(8) manpage:

       \q     Suppress writing the string to the SYSLOG file. The
              string  ??????  is written to the log in its place.
              (not valid in expect.)

This will keep the password from being logged.

Morgan Larch <mlarch@ix.netcom.com> writes:

> This must have come up before but I'll just mention it
> here and maybe, well, whatever....
> 
> The default  _out of the box debian_  scripts for dialing
> a ppp account which requires a password needs that password
> in  /etc/ppp.chatscript. Yet this dialog is logged to 
> /var/adm/messages which is world readable by default. In 
> other words, anyone on this box can look up any ISP required
> password just by cat'ing /var/adm/messages.  Am I making
> sense ? /var/adm/messages is o+r and the pon chain logs
> it's transactions to /var/adm/messages.
> 
> Anyway, either I may be stupid or there may be a BIG whole
> in this set up. Might you care to extend any advice. This
> box has three users and a different ISP each, is there a 
> secure way for them to conduct there logins, each of which
> require passwords?
> 
> mlarch@ix.netcom.com
> 
> 
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