Solved: Re: Dialin Problem: How to Transmit Whole E-mail Address as Username?

[Art Lemasters <familyop@rmi.net>]

  Thanks, Eric.  It worked.  The old ISP was supposed to use the
same login and didn't do so after all.  It works with the new ISP.
...and correction on my e-mail address in the original message.
It's familyop@rmi.net.  Thanks to any others who tried to reply.

Art

"Eric G. Miller" wrote:
> 
> On Tue, Aug 28, 2001 at 08:40:08PM -0600, Art Lemasters wrote:
> >   How can I transmit my whole e-mail address as my username for
> > a dialin account login?  Do the "@" and dots in the domain name
> > need to be escaped somehow?
> >
> >   My ISP is transferring all dialin accounts to another ISP, thus
> > the change from transmitting whole e-mail addresses instead of
> > only usernames for logins.
> >
> >   I am running unstable, pppd and pap.  Please reply to
> > familyops@rmi.net, as I am not subscribed to debian-user until
> > after the ISP switch.  Thank you!
> 
> No problem.  Run pppconfig and change it.  There's nothing special about
> the '@' and '.' characters in that context.
> 
> --
> Eric G. Miller <egm2@jps.net>