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Hello,

I need to use special characters in user_name and user_password in the
session section of openl2tpd.conf. However, if I do this I get a parse error.
I tried a backslash as an escape character, but that doesn't work.
Does anybody know how to properly use special characters in the config file?

Thanks.

Eberhard

Unfortunately this isn't supported by the command line / config file parser at the moment. We'll look into this. Perhaps we could send you a patch to try?

I would be happy to try a patch.

Thanks.

Can you submit a patch?

l2tpconfig is designed for interactive use. It supports tab completion for keywords, so has its own parser. It builds up RPC commands from each command line input provided by the user. It used to be the only way to configure openl2tpd.
Some users wanted a way to configure openl2tpd without RPC. So the config file parser was added to openl2tpd for this, and we chose the same syntax as l2tpconfig. As a result, there are two methods for configuring openl2tpd.