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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