Quoting Philip S Tellis philip@konark.ncst.ernet.in:
- LUG meet on 12 Jan. 2003 @ VJTI
On Thu, 9 Jan 2003, Nikhil Joshi wrote:
OK but Kppp *must* be storing the pass somewhere. most probably it
wud
be plain and not encrypted. In that case root can access it pls
I am not sure, but a Kppp connections can be only created by the root, so whome are you trying from?
true. but guess what... windows does too. all your dial up passwords and outlook express passwords are stored unencrypted - well, weak encryption anyway. basically, if you need to send passwords in clear text, then you need to either store them in a decryptable format or prompt the user for them. many users don't like the latter, but the choice should exist.
Again I am not sure, but a friend of mine was telling me that the windows decrypts the user passwords when authenticating instead ofencrypting the just entered password while login, is this true?
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On Fri, Jan 10, 2003 at 12:12:56PM +0600, amish_munshi@sify.com wrote:
I am not sure, but a Kppp connections can be only created by the root, so whome are you trying from?
Well, if kppp has support for PAM, anyone can use kppp. I use it that way at home.
does this solve the problem?
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