Internet Connections and Telephones

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Thu, Dec 23, 2004 at 02:43:56PM -0500, Howard Gibson wrote:
>    I connect to the internet through my telephone and through Echo Online.  Recently, their login has required PAP authentication.  This was a bit of a pain, since I was using XISP to login.
> 
>    I really like Xisp, since it stores all my internet connection data in a file local to my directory, and it encrypts my internet password.  I set my pppd to SetUID so that I did not need to log in as root to run it. 
> 
>    I can continue to log into the internet using kppp, and I have set up command line script that works too.  Both of these require a root password.  Also, both of these use a secrets file that shows my internet password in plain text.  The file is readable by root only, unless the unauthorized person has a screw driver and access to the computer.
> 
>    Is there a tool out there that does ppp/PAP/CHAP logins and uses local, encrypted files to store information?
> 

If your application can decrypt it, so can anyone else that gets a hold
of the file.  Hence encrypting it doesn't mean anything useful.

Lennart Sorensen
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