allowed characters in User-Password?

[Alan DeKok]

Nils-Henner Krueger <nhk at netuse.de> wrote:
> At first sight everything worked fine but after following the
> log for a while it turns out that (too) many users were rejected.
> 
> All the rejected accounts have a "%" sign in the User-Password.

  See doc/variables.txt

> How can I get around this problem? There are a few thousand
> dialin accounts, out of them about 300 have a "%" in the password
> so I can't simply call them and solve that directly, not speaking
> about other chars that might make trouble, too.

  Escape the % via \%.

  Alan DeKok.