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Problem? solution?
I'm not convinced this really is a problem, because if someone who shouldn't be there is in your system as root (as they'd need to be to see this) you are already in deep trouble.
Problem? solution?
I'm not convinced this really is a problem, because if someone who shouldn't be there is in your system as root (as they'd need to be to see this) you are already in deep trouble.
They don't need to be root to see it; they just need to be logged in as any user. (I tested this just now.) If a remote hole is discovered which gives an attacker access as any user, then once in they can see your PPP username, password, and dialup phone number. Yeah, it's not your credit card number and it's not root access, but it's still bad. Cheers, Wangden
definately a problem
any user on an osx system legal or not can access this information, you don't need any kind of administrative-privileges:
Problem? solution?
On my 10.2.8 system with all the security patches, my password is encrypted in the preferences.xml file, and in the command line it shows up as ******. So I guess this problem has been fixed. |
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