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-rw-r--r--usr.sbin/ppp/ppp/ppp.8.m413
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/usr.sbin/ppp/ppp/ppp.8.m4 b/usr.sbin/ppp/ppp/ppp.8.m4
index 8edadef40f9..dcb34195570 100644
--- a/usr.sbin/ppp/ppp/ppp.8.m4
+++ b/usr.sbin/ppp/ppp/ppp.8.m4
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ changecom(,)dnl
.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF
.\" SUCH DAMAGE.
.\"
-.\" $OpenBSD: ppp.8.m4,v 1.22 2005/03/10 09:35:10 jmc Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: ppp.8.m4,v 1.23 2005/03/29 20:23:48 jmc Exp $
.\"
.Dd September 20, 1995
.Dt PPP 8
@@ -789,16 +789,23 @@ the user account by the same name, and the
.Sq ~
character by itself is substituted with the full path to the home directory
of the current user.
+Any characters following a
+.Sq #
+character are ignored.
To include a literal
-.Sq $
+.Sq $ ,
+.Sq ~ ,
or
-.Sq ~
+.Sq #
character in a command or argument, escape it with a
.Sq \e
+character or quote the command/argument using the
+.Sq \&"
character.
For example:
.Pp
.Dl set password pa\e$ss\e~word
+.Dl set password \&"user#1234@example.net\&"
.El
.Pp
The