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Shane Wegner (shane@cm.nu)
Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:50:01 -0800 (PST)
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Hi,
I run it from the dhclient-script file. That way it logs in everytime it
starts up. As for the cleartext password chmod 700 and it'll be fine.
Something has gotta store that password unless you want a password prompt
everytime you boot or you can convince bctac to drop the whole concept.
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On Fri, 18 Dec 1998, Harondel J. Sibble wrote:
>
> What's the best startup script to run this from? (under rh5.2) rc.local? or
> from the firewall script run from within rc.local?
>
> I assume this should be made executable by root only?
> One concern I have is taht the password is in plaintext, is there any way
> around this?
>
> Harondel J. Sibble
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