From dee0aedd65a793e669b1dd3e6bdee62ca4463793 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Frank Cusack <fcusack@fcusack.com>
Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2003 08:57:58 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Document the 'password' option (with warning).

---
 pppd/pppd.8 | 7 ++++++-
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/pppd/pppd.8 b/pppd/pppd.8
index 9f0cb5d..a80a51c 100644
--- 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
-- 
2.39.2