Thanks again. Yes this do not work. I'll see if it can be corrected.
// Ola
On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 12:41:23AM -0400, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote:
> Package: pptp-linux
> Version: 1.7.2-6
> Severity: normal
>
> I was using a randomly-generated password that happened to have a
> quotation mark (") in it (let's pretend it was: sek"rit). I entered it
> as requested by pptpsetup.
>
> it stored it in /etc/ppp/chap-secrets like this:
>
> dkg remoteendpoint "sek"rit" *
>
> and this failed to sync properly with the pptp server listening at
> remoteendpoint:
>
> .....
> rcvd [LCP EchoRep id=0x0 magic=0x5af09778]
> rcvd [CHAP Failure id=0x1 "E=691 R=0 M=Login incorrect"]
> MS-CHAP authentication failed: Login incorrect
> CHAP authentication failed
> sent [LCP TermReq id=0x2 "Failed to authenticate ourselves to peer"]
> .....
>
> switching my password to one that does not use a " character (and
> updating /etc/ppp/chap-secrets by hand) allowed me to successfully
> authenticate.
>
> --dkg
>
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: wheezy/sid
> APT prefers testing
> APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (200, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
> Architecture: i386 (i686)
>
> Kernel: Linux 3.0.0-1-686-pae (SMP w/1 CPU core)
> Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
>
> Versions of packages pptp-linux depends on:
> ii binutils 2.21.90.20111004-2
> ii libc6 2.13-21
> ii ppp 2.4.5-5
>
> pptp-linux recommends no packages.
>
> pptp-linux suggests no packages.
>
> -- no debconf information
>
>
>
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