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Subject: bin/17635: ppp 4.0 no longer allows # in authname, 3.x did
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>Number:         17635
>Category:       bin
>Synopsis:       ppp 4.0 no longer allows # in authname, 3.x did
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Tue Mar 28 04:00:01 PST 2000
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Jay Krell
>Release:        4.0
>Organization:
Jay Krell
>Environment:
FreeBSD jayk-bsd1 4.0-STABLE FreeBSD 4.0-STABLE #0: Tue Mar 28 03:10:11 PST 2000
     jayk@jayk-bsd1:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/JAYK1  i386  
>Description:
Netcom ISP login accounts all start with #. This worked fine in FreeBSD 3.x.
ppp.conf:
  set authname #jaykrell
  set authkey ***
worked fine. Now in 4.0, the # is seen as the start of a comment.
>How-To-Repeat:
Get an account with netcom, if this is still possible. They've been bought/merged twice, but my account from 1996 works the same as it always has, modulo phone number changes.

Install 4.0 (I upgraded from rom 3.4-Release to 4.0-Stable, as of about March 27, 2000).

ppp -nat -auto netcom or somesuch
or
interace ppp
dial netcom
interactive gives a warning about empty pap name, and fails to connect

>Fix:
I replaced all occurences of '#' in /usr/src/usr.sbin/ppp with '%', but this fix is not acceptable. Maybe I'll debug (find in files) it more now that I've got the source over to a machine with Visual C++..

>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
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