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RE: Hiding all copies of your PPP password
On Wed, 9 Dec 1998, crisk wrote:
> PS - modifying pppd won't cut it for systems which routinely md5sum every
> binary and compare it to a verified secure list kept safe. (like
> on a floppy.. or encrypted on a remote server). Security freaks
> actually do that. Paranoia rules.
This is not paranoia, it is the rule if U want to sleep well at night. The
copies need not be on a remote server, they can be on a mounted CDROM or
better write-protected SCSI disk (remove a jumper and that's it).
Peter