On Wed, 2006-08-09 at 17:00 -0300, Rodrigo Barbosa wrote:
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On Wed, Aug 09, 2006 at 03:19:23PM -0400, William L. Maltby wrote:
the 3rd being:
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HA! I remember this from before I got cable access. While futilely hoping the telco would get DSL out here in the sticks, I did dial to my ISP. Auth was either PAP or CHAP. IIRC, ISP preferred CHAP and that's what we did (PtoP).
Having to stop the passwords on plaintext (on the ISP side) always makes me raise an eyebrow toward any place that offers CHAP as authentication. Then again, I always use different passwords everywhere, so that is not usually a big issue.
Same here, even in my own net (I have grandchildren: they can be "snoopy"). The darn trouble is trying to remember them all, including those for different 'net sites; all have a different password.
The plain text password didn't bother me so much as my connection was a dial-up Point-to-Point connection. One would need some special acces to intercept.
Rodrigo Barbosa
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