bin/83378: Error in user-level-ppp, if password begins char "!" and CHAP auth.

[FUJISHIMA Satsuki]

Synopsis: Error in user-level-ppp, if password begins char "!" and CHAP auth.

State-Changed-From-To: open->closed
State-Changed-By: sf
State-Changed-When: Thu Jul 14 04:45:56 GMT 2005
State-Changed-Why: 
Just type
man ppp | less +/"auth]key value"
and you'll find the answer.
...
| If the first character of value is an exclamation mark (``!''),
| ppp treats the remainder of the string as a program that must be
| executed to determine the ``authname'' and ``authkey'' values.
|
| If the ``!'' is doubled up (to ``!!''), it is treated as a single
| literal ``!'',
...


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