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Date:      Wed, 21 Jun 2000 22:20:33 +0100
From:      Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org>
To:        "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.osd.bsdi.com>
Cc:        Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org>, Jordan Hubbard <jkh@FreeBSD.ORG>, Michael Hohmuth <hohmuth@innocent.com>, 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:  <200006212120.WAA01926@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org>
In-Reply-To: Message from "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.osd.bsdi.com>  of "Wed, 21 Jun 2000 11:49:43 PDT." <12260.961613383@localhost> 

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Thanks.  I've updated i386/RELNOTES.TXT and alpha/RELNOTES.TXT, but 
these files need a lot more work....

> Add it to the branch and I'll tag-slide it.  I need to do this for
> the release notes anyway. :)  [/me forgot something in his build
> yesterday]
> 
> - Jordan
> 
> > Jordan,
> > 
> > Is it too late to add this to the 3.5 release notes ?
> > 
> > > 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/

-- 
Brian <brian@Awfulhak.org>                        <brian@[uk.]FreeBSD.org>
      <http://www.Awfulhak.org>;                   <brian@[uk.]OpenBSD.org>
Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour !




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