Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2000 17:47:01 +0100 From: Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org> To: Jordan Hubbard <jkh@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: Michael Hohmuth <hohmuth@innocent.com>, Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org>, 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: <200006211647.RAA45285@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org> In-Reply-To: Message from Michael Hohmuth <hohmuth@innocent.com> of "21 Jun 2000 17:15:58 %2B0200." <87zoof3w0h.fsf@olymp.sax.de>
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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 ! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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