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pppd: Remove promptpass plugin

Open paulusmack opened this issue 1 year ago • 1 comments

This is prompted by a number of factors:

  • The handling of privileges and possibly file descriptors is flawed

  • In many cases there will be no terminal accessible to the prompter program at the point where the prompter is run

  • The passwordfd plugin does much the same thing but does it more cleanly and securely.

paulusmack avatar Oct 18 '24 09:10 paulusmack

@paulusmack: You have canceled your PR?

Neustradamus avatar Oct 24 '24 10:10 Neustradamus

Yes, Jaco Kroon wanted me to be as vague as possible in the public commit, so I'll remove it along with other old stuff and not mention the bug in dropping privileges.

paulusmack avatar Oct 24 '24 11:10 paulusmack