Debian bug report logs - #1251 , boring messages ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Message sent to debian-devel@pixar.com: Subject: Bug#1251: ppp gives out password Reply-To: richard@elmail.co.uk (Richard Kettlewell), debian-bugs@pixar.com Resent-From: richard@elmail.co.uk (Richard Kettlewell) Resent-To: debian-devel@pixar.com Resent-Date: Tue, 15 Aug 1995 02:48:02 GMT Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: iwj10@cus.cam.ac.uk X-Debian-PR-Package: ppp X-Debian-PR-Keywords: Received: via spool for debian-bugs; Tue, 15 Aug 1995 02:48:02 GMT Received: with rfc822 via encapsulated-mail; Tue, 15 Aug 1995 02:33:13 GMT Received: from pixar.com by mongo.pixar.com with smtp (Smail3.1.28.1 #15) id m0siBnV-000BF7C; Mon, 14 Aug 95 19:32 PDT Received: from post.elmail.co.uk (tlingit.elmail.co.uk) by pixar.com with SMTP id AA22318 (5.67b/IDA-1.5 for debian-bugs-pipe@mongo.pixar.com); Mon, 14 Aug 1995 19:32:00 -0700 Received: from sfere.elmail.co.uk by post.elmail.co.uk (ElectricMail-MESSAGE-2.0-BETA+) id DAA11630; Tue, 15 Aug 1995 03:30:32 +0100 Received: by sfere.elmail.co.uk id (Debian /\oo/\ Smail3.1.29.1 #29.33); Tue, 15 Aug 95 03:33 BST Date: Tue, 15 Aug 95 03:33 BST From: richard@elmail.co.uk (Richard Kettlewell) Message-Id: <303006900822@sfere.elmail.co.uk> To: debian-bugs@pixar.com Package: ppp Version: 2.1.2b-1 /etc/ppp/ppp-connect as shipped will put the PPP account's password in a world-readable ps listing. sfere:richard$ really ip start starting /usr/sbin/pppd ... sfere:richard$ ps xawu USER PID %CPU %MEM SIZE RSS TTY STAT START TIME COMMAND [...] root 2037 0.0 4.6 117 328 s02 S 03:26 0:00 /usr/sbin/pppd root 2038 1.2 5.8 286 416 s02 S 03:26 0:00 sh /etc/ppp/ppp-connect root 2039 0.4 2.0 38 148 s02 S 03:26 0:00 /usr/sbin/chat ATM0DT576815 CONNECT ogin: sfere word: [password edited out] sfere:richard$ ttfn/rjk ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Message sent: From: iwj10@thor.cam.ac.uk (Ian Jackson) To: richard@elmail.co.uk (Richard Kettlewell) Subject: Bug#1251: Acknowledgement (was: ppp gives out password) In-Reply-To: <303006900822@sfere.elmail.co.uk> References: <303006900822@sfere.elmail.co.uk> Thank you for the problem report you have sent regarding Debian GNU/Linux. This is an automatically generated reply, to let you know your message has been received. It is being forwarded to the developers' mailing list for their attention; they will reply in due course. If you wish to submit further information on your problem, please send it to debian-bugs@pixar.com, but please ensure that the Subject line of your message starts with "Bug#1251" or "Re: Bug#1251" so that we can identify it as relating to the same problem. Please do not reply to the address at the top of this message, unless you wish to report a problem with the bug-tracking system. Ian Jackson (maintainer, debian-bugs) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Ian Jackson / iwj10@thor.cam.ac.uk , with the debian-bugs tracking mechanism This page last modified 07:43:01 GMT Wed 01 Nov