Date: Sun, 13 Oct 1996 21:30:53 -0700 (PDT) From: Steve Reid <steve@edmweb.com> To: Barney Wolff <barney@databus.com> Cc: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ijppp and ppp.secret for PAP Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.961013210748.187A-100000@bitbucket.edmweb.com> In-Reply-To: <3261704c0.18ef@databus.databus.com>
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> > One thing I have noticed is that the Microsoft dialer (the one that comes > > with Windows95 and the Win3.1 version of Internet Exploter) won't allow > > passwords longer than 8 characters. Well, it'll allow them, but they won't > > work. It took me a while to figure that one out. :-/ > > This is simply not true, by personal experience with the Win95 dialer. Hmm... When I first tried setting up a win95 machine to access our PPP server, I had a password a bit longer than 8 characters and it didn't work. I tried everything I could think of but it didn't work until I changed the password to something short. Since everyone else seems to have no problem with long passwords, I can only guess that maybe I had trailing whitespace in the /etc/ppp/pap-secrets file. I've been using <8 char passwords ever since, and haven't seem the problem. *shrug* So am I also the only person who can't get the "save password" checkbox to work under Windows 95? The option is there but it isn't lit up and so it can't be selected. ===================================================================== | Steve Reid - SysAdmin & Pres, EDM Web (http://www.edmweb.com/) | | Email: steve@edmweb.com Home Page: http://www.edmweb.com/steve/ | | PGP (2048/9F317269) Fingerprint: 11C89D1CD67287E68C09EC52443F8830 | | -- Disclaimer: JMHO, YMMV, TANSTAAFL, IANAL. -- | ===================================================================:)
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