From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jun 21 8:32: 0 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2DBAF37BCB4; Wed, 21 Jun 2000 08:31:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from hohmuth@olymp.sax.de) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) with UUCP id RAA11645; Wed, 21 Jun 2000 17:28:55 +0200 (CEST) Received: (from hohmuth@localhost) by olymp.sax.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) id RAA06540; Wed, 21 Jun 2000 17:15:58 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from hohmuth) From: Michael Hohmuth To: Brian Somers Cc: Adam Steffes , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG, brian@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org Subject: Re: ppp problems under 4.0-S References: <200004050711.IAA00480@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by tm-edit 7.108) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Date: 21 Jun 2000 17:15:58 +0200 In-Reply-To: Brian Somers's message of "Wed, 05 Apr 2000 08:11:04 +0100" Message-ID: <87zoof3w0h.fsf@olymp.sax.de> Lines: 19 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.5/XEmacs 20.4 - "Emerald" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message