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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.hawaii.edu!ames!usenet.kornet.nm.kr!news.kreonet.re.kr!news.dacom.co.kr!newsrelay.netins.net!solaris.cc.vt.edu!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!cs.tu-berlin.de!uni-erlangen.de!news.tu-chemnitz.de!narses.hrz.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: IMPORTANT PPP SECURITY ISSUE Date: 8 Mar 1996 09:26:55 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 17 Message-ID: <4hougv$kvp@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <4hkast$4u7@ns.hcsc.com> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.3 angelo@tawny.ssd.csd.harris.com (Angel Ortiz) writes: [Many ``cold kaffe'' removed.] > 3. Make your /etc/passwd file and any pass word encrypted file > read/write only by root. This is humbug. /etc/passwd does not contain real passwords on FreeBSD, and /etc/master.passwd will always be mode 0600 unless you change it yourself. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)