On Fri, Feb 09, 2007 at 11:49:05AM +0000, Roy Marples wrote: > On Fri, 9 Feb 2007 12:05:52 +0100 > Harald van Dijk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > One issue is that any valid character is allowed in WPAPSK, > > > including ; > > > > Good point, but excluding newline, right? I can't try it, but rt2500's > > own settings file format does not allow for newline in WPAPSK. > > No it doesn't, but the actual specification for IEEE 802.11 allows ANY > character in SSID and keys - newlines, tabs, ;, etc.
Okay, thanks for the info. The only easy alternative I can think of is using printf "%b", but IIRC printf is not universally supported yet, so yeah, eval is probably the only thing that will offer all the needed options. I still hope you can get some decent sanity checks for it. > Just because the rt2500 proprietary config doesn't allow it doesn't > mean we shouldn't either. Proprietary?
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