Bug 88856
| Summary: | /etc/wvdial.conf is publically readable and contains remote user account and passwords | ||
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| Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | Brad Smith <bradley.g.smith> |
| Component: | wvdial | Assignee: | Nalin Dahyabhai <nalin> |
| Status: | CLOSED DUPLICATE | QA Contact: | David Lawrence <dkl> |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 9 | CC: | mitr |
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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| Last Closed: | 2006-02-21 18:52:41 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 106738 *** Changed to 'CLOSED' state since 'RESOLVED' has been deprecated. |
Description of problem: /etc/wvdial.conf is configured by the redhat network configuration tool when a ppp connection is defined. wvdial.conf contains remote user id and password for the dial-up account. wvdial.conf is also visible with these permissions: -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 248 Apr 14 16:59 /etc/wvdial.conf Since it also contains the phone number for the remote system this seems like a large potential security risk. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Steps to Reproduce: 1. configure remote dial-up connection 2. more /etc/wvdial.conf to view password 3. ls -l /etc/wvdial.conf to view permissions Actual results: Expected results: passwords and possibly user id information to be encrypted. Additional info: