Well, the idea was that it would be like:
username - shell
username%ppp - ppp
username%slip - slip
etc
Since that was how most of the prefix/suffix hacks were used prior to 2.0
(in fact, that's really the only way they worked, for the reasons you note).
>Is there a way around this? If the response packet were to include
>a User-Name attribute, would the portmaster honor it? I ask because
Not right now. We are looking at this. There are security concerns,
obviously, about changing the username like that. But we're looking at
different options.
-MZ
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