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Authored by: wngdn on May 10, '02 11:49:03AM
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

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