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To: Jordan Hubbard <jkh@FreeBSD.ORG>
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Subject: Re: ppp problems under 4.0-S 
In-Reply-To: Message from Michael Hohmuth <hohmuth@innocent.com> 
   of "21 Jun 2000 17:15:58 +0200." <87zoof3w0h.fsf@olymp.sax.de> 
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Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2000 17:47:01 +0100
From: Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org>
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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 !




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