Date: 21 Jun 2000 17:15:58 +0200 From: Michael Hohmuth <hohmuth@innocent.com> To: Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org> Cc: Adam Steffes <asteffes@ucdavis.edu>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG, brian@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org Subject: Re: ppp problems under 4.0-S Message-ID: <87zoof3w0h.fsf@olymp.sax.de> In-Reply-To: Brian Somers's message of "Wed, 05 Apr 2000 08:11:04 %2B0100" References: <200004050711.IAA00480@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org>
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Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org> writes: > At a guess, you're failing authentication because you now need to > escape the '#' in your password ? Be careful about quoting (``"'') > the # though.... there's another bug that was just plugged in this > respect ! I just stumbled over this after I cvsuped the newest 3.x-STABLE -- these `ppp' changes made it to the 3.x-STABLE branch just two weeks ago. Thank god I found your old message! I think this change deserves a big ``heads up.'' and an entry in the 3.5/4.1 release notes. Germany's largest ISP (T-Online) uses PPP login names that contain a '#'. Michael -- hohmuth@innocent.com, hohmuth@sax.de http://www.sax.de/~hohmuth/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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