On Tue, 3 Nov 1998, Colin Coombs wrote: > Hi, > > I am just trying to set up a PC with RedHat 5.1 out of the box, and I want > to configure dial-up PPP access to T-online, my local ISP. This provider > (part of Deutsche Telekom) uses your telephone number as a part of the > login ID, and if (like mine) your number is shorter than 12 digits, you > have to fill it with '#' characters. > > Unfortunately, in the pap-secrets file, the '#' marks the start of a > comment field. OK, you can put the user ID inside "" and pppd will handle > it. But linuxconf gets totally confused! Ok, then we must fix linuxconf. I will do that. > How can I get linuxconf to handle a '#' in the user ID -- or failing that, > what other software do people recommend for controlling a PPP link? All I > really need is an easy means of bringing the link up, bringing it down and > checking the current status. the pap-secrets handling is really simple in modules/redhat/ppp.cc. Further, linuxconf has some function (str_copyquote) to extract quoted text out of a line. So the fix should be easy. I will do that for the next release. -------------------------- Jacques Gelinas [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- You are currently subscribed to linuxconf as: [[email protected]] To unsubscribe, forward this message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
