Document the 'password' option (with warning).

diff --git a/pppd/pppd.8 b/pppd/pppd.8
index 9f0cb5d571ffaa8f13a816db2e3dad4e645a46d9..a80a51cf2788c8e08c293f1436632801f366ef72 100644 (file)
--- a/pppd/pppd.8
+++ b/pppd/pppd.8
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 .\" manual page [] for pppd 2.4
-.\" $Id: pppd.8,v 1.70 2003/03/25 09:33:32 fcusack Exp $
+.\" $Id: pppd.8,v 1.71 2003/04/25 08:57:58 fcusack Exp $
 .\" SH section heading
 .\" SS subsection heading
 .\" LP paragraph
@@ -830,6 +830,11 @@ packets using the \fBinbound\fR and \fBoutbound\fR qualifiers. This
 option is currently only available under NetBSD or Linux, and then
 only if both the kernel and pppd were compiled with PPP_FILTER defined.
 .TP
+.B password \fIpassword-string
+Specifies the password to use for authenticating to the peer.  Use
+of this option is discouraged, as the password is likely to be visible
+to other users on the system (for example, by using ps(1)).
+.TP
 .B persist
 Do not exit after a connection is terminated; instead try to reopen
 the connection. The \fBmaxfail\fR option still has an effect on