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This is prompted by a number of factors: * It was more useful back in the dial-up days, but no-one uses dial-up any more * In many cases there will be no terminal accessible to the prompter program at the point where the prompter is run * The passwordfd plugin does much the same thing but does it more cleanly and securely * The handling of privileges and file descriptors needs to be audited thoroughly. Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <[email protected]>
This is associated with the passprompt plugin, and like it, seems not to be very useful any more now that no-one uses dial-up. Also, its function seems somewhat peripheral to PPP. Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <[email protected]>
This removes various scripts and config files that related to dial-up connections, doing PPP over rsh or ssh (for which there are better alternatives), and updating resolv.conf (for which distros have other mechanisms these days). Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <[email protected]>
The commentary and example in this file doesn't seem all that useful. Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <[email protected]>
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Delete some old stuff of little value now that no-one uses dial-up modems any more. This will reduce the maintenance burden and scope for vulnerabilities a little.