From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030703 Epiphany/1.0 Description of problem: When you create a ppp connection with redhat-config-network it creates /etc/wvdial.conf with the ppp account info in it including the password in clear text. the mode is set to group/world readable! Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): redhat-config-network-1.3.6-1 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. rm /etc/wvdial.conf if it exists 2. run redhat-config-network 3. create a ppp connection 4. ls -l /etc/wvdial.conf (note all have read permissions) 5. more /etc/wvdial.conf (note ppp account password readable) Actual Results: world readable /etc/wvdial.conf with plain text password in it. Expected Results: readable only by root /etc/wvdial.conf Additional info:
Looks like this is also in Redhat 9, see bug 88856 it's filed on wvdial package (which doesn't write the config file I think) and with normal/normal severity, it probably should be moved to redhat-config-network with security/high
*** Bug 88856 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***