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- Support to pass the password via a pipe to the pppd
- ---------------------------------------------------
-
- Arvin Schnell <arvin@suse.de>
- 2002-02-08
-
-
- 1. Introduction
- ---------------
-
- Normally programs like wvdial or kppp read the online password from their
- config file and store them in the pap- and chap-secrets before they start the
- pppd and remove them afterwards. Sure they need special privileges to do so.
-
- The passwordfd feature offers a simpler and more secure solution. The program
- that starts the pppd opens a pipe and writes the password into it. The pppd
- simply reads the password from that pipe.
-
- This methods is used for quiet a while on SuSE Linux by the programs wvdial,
- kppp and smpppd.
-
-
- 2. Example
- ----------
-
- Here is a short C program that uses the passwordfd feature. It starts the pppd
- to buildup a pppoe connection.
-
-
- --snip--
-
- #include <stdio.h>
- #include <stdlib.h>
- #include <unistd.h>
- #include <signal.h>
- #include <string.h>
- #include <paths.h>
-
- #ifndef _PATH_PPPD
- #define _PATH_PPPD "/usr/sbin/pppd"
- #endif
-
-
- // Of course these values can be read from a configuration file or
- // entered in a graphical dialog.
- char *device = "eth0";
- char *username = "1122334455661122334455660001@t-online.de";
- char *password = "hello";
-
- pid_t pid = 0;
-
-
- void
- sigproc (int src)
- {
- fprintf (stderr, "Sending signal %d to pid %d\n", src, pid);
- kill (pid, src);
- exit (EXIT_SUCCESS);
- }
-
-
- void
- sigchild (int src)
- {
- fprintf (stderr, "Daemon died\n");
- exit (EXIT_SUCCESS);
- }
-
-
- int
- start_pppd ()
- {
- signal (SIGINT, &sigproc);
- signal (SIGTERM, &sigproc);
- signal (SIGCHLD, &sigchild);
-
- pid = fork ();
- if (pid < 0) {
- fprintf (stderr, "unable to fork() for pppd: %m\n");
- return 0;
- }
-
- if (pid == 0) {
-
- int i, pppd_argc = 0;
- char *pppd_argv[20];
- char buffer[32] = "";
- int pppd_passwdfd[2];
-
- for (i = 0; i < 20; i++)
- pppd_argv[i] = NULL;
-
- pppd_argv[pppd_argc++] = "pppd";
-
- pppd_argv[pppd_argc++] = "call";
- pppd_argv[pppd_argc++] = "pwfd-test";
-
- // The device must be after the call, since the call loads the plugin.
- pppd_argv[pppd_argc++] = device;
-
- pppd_argv[pppd_argc++] = "user";
- pppd_argv[pppd_argc++] = username;
-
- // Open a pipe to pass the password to pppd.
- if (pipe (pppd_passwdfd) == -1) {
- fprintf (stderr, "pipe failed: %m\n");
- exit (EXIT_FAILURE);
- }
-
- // Of course this only works it the password is shorter
- // than the pipe buffer. Otherwise you have to fork to
- // prevent that your main program blocks.
- write (pppd_passwdfd[1], password, strlen (password));
- close (pppd_passwdfd[1]);
-
- // Tell the pppd to read the password from the fd.
- pppd_argv[pppd_argc++] = "passwordfd";
- snprintf (buffer, 32, "%d", pppd_passwdfd[0]);
- pppd_argv[pppd_argc++] = buffer;
-
- if (execv (_PATH_PPPD, (char **) pppd_argv) < 0) {
- fprintf (stderr, "cannot execl %s: %m\n", _PATH_PPPD);
- exit (EXIT_FAILURE);
- }
- }
-
- pause ();
-
- return 1;
- }
-
-
- int
- main (int argc, char **argv)
- {
- if (start_pppd ())
- exit (EXIT_SUCCESS);
-
- exit (EXIT_FAILURE);
- }
-
- ---snip---
-
-
- Copy this file to /etc/ppp/peers/pwfd-test. The plugins can't be loaded on the
- command line (unless you are root) since the plugin option is privileged.
-
-
- ---snip---
-
- #
- # PPPoE plugin for kernel 2.4
- #
- plugin pppoe.so
-
- #
- # This plugin enables us to pipe the password to pppd, thus we don't have
- # to fiddle with pap-secrets and chap-secrets. The user is also passed
- # on the command line.
- #
- plugin passwordfd.so
-
- noauth
- usepeerdns
- defaultroute
- hide-password
- nodetach
- nopcomp
- novjccomp
- noccp
-
- ---snip---
-
-