Re: (PM) PPPSmartAgent 1.0b5 available for open-beta

Roy (garlic@garlic.com)
Thu, 11 Feb 1999 09:40:05 -0800

Its a massive security hole. Someone could telnet in and then get all
the PPP debugging information without authenticating.

Jake Messinger wrote:
>
> On Thu, 11 Feb 1999, John Vozza wrote:
>
> >
> > I noticed that after using this program if you telnet to the PM3 it was
> > used on the PPP debugging output is displayed even before you login!
>
> Right.
> >
> > Seems like the program doesn't clean up after itself very well.
>
> You have to set debug off. I consider it a feature that it REMINDS you
> that you left the debug on, which slows down processing.
>
> Now, should the unit turn off debug if the console session is lost? Id
> say, yes.
>
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