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Subject: Re: [9fans] Problem with Authentication in pppoe
From: "Russ Cox" <rsc@plan9.bell-labs.com>
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Date: Tue,  8 Oct 2002 11:33:26 -0400
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you do need to quote the # character, but backslashes
aren't necessary.

ip/pppoe -s 'you#num@there:password'

should work fine.

if there are single quotes already in your user name or
password, you need to double them.  if your password
is "don'ttell" then you'd use

ip/pppoe -s 'you#num@there:don''ttell'