From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Jun 21 14:26:34 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from Awfulhak.org (tun.AwfulHak.org [194.242.139.173]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5E9F537B5E1; Wed, 21 Jun 2000 14:26:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brian@Awfulhak.org) Received: from hak.lan.Awfulhak.org (root@hak.lan.awfulhak.org [172.16.0.12]) by Awfulhak.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id WAA25282; Wed, 21 Jun 2000 22:20:35 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from brian@Awfulhak.org) Received: from hak.lan.Awfulhak.org (brian@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by hak.lan.Awfulhak.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id WAA01926; Wed, 21 Jun 2000 22:20:33 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from brian@Awfulhak.org) Message-Id: <200006212120.WAA01926@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Cc: Brian Somers , Jordan Hubbard , Michael Hohmuth , Adam Steffes , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG, brian@hak.lan.awfulhak.org Subject: Re: ppp problems under 4.0-S In-Reply-To: Message from "Jordan K. Hubbard" of "Wed, 21 Jun 2000 11:49:43 PDT." <12260.961613383@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2000 22:20:33 +0100 From: Brian Somers Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Thanks. I've updated i386/RELNOTES.TXT and alpha/RELNOTES.TXT, but these files need a lot more work.... > Add it to the branch and I'll tag-slide it. I need to do this for > the release notes anyway. :) [/me forgot something in his build > yesterday] > > - Jordan > > > Jordan, > > > > Is it too late to add this to the 3.5 release notes ? > > > > > Brian Somers 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 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