Re: debian pppd chatscript

[tarby () FREESIDE ELTE HU (TARBY)]

On 15-Dec-97 Stephen Hardman wrote:

> This is a bit old, but someone else noticed this and then it
> started happening on my machine.
>
> The default logfile (/var/log/ppp.log) is world readable by default.
[...]
> Dec 14 16:43:15 gateway chat[362]: Password -- got it
> Dec 14 16:43:15 gateway chat[362]: send (MyPassWoRd^M)
>
> So it seems it is not hiding the sent password as it should
> do when the password is preceeded by \q in /etc/ppp.chatscript.
If you put \q in the previous line eg.:

-8<---

OK              ATDTisp-number
ogin:           \qMyUsername
assword:        MyPassword

-8<---

It worked for me this way. This may be a bug in pppd but the 'workaround' is
easy.:) BTW in my opinion it's better to use PAP etc...

 C'ya!

Peter Tarbaj