Re: [Help-gnu-radius] Radius DOES NOT work with MD5 hashed password

[List User]

Thanks you for such comprehensive answer.
Is there anything can be done for the RADIUS NOT to pass clear text password
to mySql over the wire?
Please note that my NAS can only do CHAP or PAP.
thanks


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Sergey Poznyakoff" <address@hidden>
To: "List User" <address@hidden>
Cc: <address@hidden>
Sent: Saturday, August 02, 2003 7:28 AM
Subject: Re: [Help-gnu-radius] Radius DOES NOT work with MD5 hashed password


> > According to radius docs
> > (http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/help-gnu-radius/2003-03/msg00012.html)
I
> > generate a password using MD5 function: "Test" ->
> > 0cbc6611f5540bd0809a388dc95a615b.
>
> That's *not* an MD5 encrypted password. That's an MD5 hash, and it cannot
be
> used as a password. If you don't have ENCRYPT(), you will have to
> generate MD5 encrypted passwords (not hashes!) on a nearby Unix machine
and
> copy them to your win32 box.
>
> Beside this, notice that, according to the following message:
>
> > Jul 24 15:11:27 Auth.notice: (AUTHREQ local 17 md5): Login incorrect
> > [md5/{chap-password}], CLID unknown.
>
> the user was trying to authenticate using CHAP, and CHAP can *only* be
> used with plaintext passwords.
>
> Regards,
> Sergey
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