From: Larry Platzek (larryp@inow.com)
Date: Mon May 24 1999 - 02:56:55 CEST
Please look into same problem with password also.
Had to change to a new one to use Mulinux. I did not mention it before not
wanting to cause extra work for you to fix it; but as long as going to
work in the area anyway please fix the password also.
I very much enjoy using mulinux! Thank you!
Larry Platzek larryp@inow.com
On Sun, 23 May 1999, Michele Andreoli wrote:
> Date: Sun, 23 May 1999 19:15:52 +0000
> From: Michele Andreoli <andreoli@pisoft.it>
> Reply-To: mulinux@lists.linux.it
> To: mulinux@lists.linux.it
> Subject: Re: [mu SETUP] 6r1 ppp username
> Resent-Date: Sun, 23 May 1999 21:27:52 +0200 (CEST)
> Resent-From: mulinux@lists.linux.it
>
> On Sun, May 23, 1999 at 06:11:18PM +0200, Karlheinz Koerber wrote:
> > Hi, I think that there is a strange behaviour of setup -f ppp.
> >
> >
> > You may ask why do I need these "-characters around the username ? The
> > reason is that my username from German Telekom T-Online is containing a
> > #-character which would be interpreted as a comment-character and
> > PAP-authentication fails without these two "-characters.
> >
>
> Arghh!
> A typical UNIX problem: the shell interpret anythings.
> A this moment, it cannot be resolved, because at any Setup
> the setup-environment will be reinterpreted.
>
> Thanks for this report. It's a real problem of "setup" script,
> related to his nature: a shell script.
>
> If your muLinux is installed in HD, you can fix configuring PPP
> and disabling "setup ppp".
> The, edit ppp-on and add
>
> setup -m slhc
> setup -m ppp
>
> in the head of the script.
>
> Try also with super-quoting: somewhat like '"username"', or
> '\"username\"', but not work, sure.
>
> In some place, setup script evaluate this variables: the only solution
> which I can see is to replace the dangerous character (as ", `, etc.)
> with innocous one. In the next release!
>
> Michele
> --
> Mi sarebbe piaciuto concludere con un'affermazione positiva, ma
> non me ne vengono in mente. Vanno bene due negative?
> -- Woody Allen
>
>
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