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Date:      Sat, 14 Sep 2002 11:10:55 +0900 (JST)
From:      AIDA Shinra <aida-s@jcom.home.ne.jp>
To:        FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org
Cc:        AIDA Shinra <aida-s@jcom.home.ne.jp>
Subject:   docs/42762: ppp.8 has no description of $env and ~user expansion in ppp.conf
Message-ID:  <200209140210.g8E2AtLd045704@ntthkid09083.ppp.infoweb.ne.jp>

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>Number:         42762
>Category:       docs
>Synopsis:       ppp.8 has no description of $env and ~user expansion in ppp.conf
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    freebsd-doc
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          doc-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Fri Sep 13 19:20:01 PDT 2002
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     AIDA Shinra
>Release:        FreeBSD 4.7-PRERELEASE i386
>Organization:
>Environment:
System: FreeBSD e-note 4.7-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 4.7-PRERELEASE #9: Mon Sep 9 22:30:05 JST 2002 shinra@e-note:/usr/obj/usr/freebsd/src/sys/LOCAL i386


>Description:
ppp expands $env to corresponding environment variables, and ~user to their
home directory name reading any command lines in ppp.conf. However, ppp.8
doesn't explain this at all.

Without description of this feature, some trouble happens. For example,
 authkey pa$ssword
is transformed info ' authkey pa'(if $ssword is undefined), and authentication
'mysteriously' fails.

>How-To-Repeat:
>Fix:
Add proper description of '$', '~', and '/'.
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted:

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