Re: Radius 2.0 and static entries in users file ??? (fwd)

MegaZone (megazone@livingston.com)
Tue, 21 Jan 1997 01:58:16 -0800 (PST)

Once upon a time William Weston shaped the electrons to say...
>of the prefix to the username is applied automatically by radius. In this
>case, your entry should start out with:
>
>mrt Auth-Type = System, Prefix = "P"

Actually this should NEVER work.

RADIUS matches the name BEFORE stripping the prefix - after all, how would
it now you want to use a Prefix before finding the entry?

I believe it should be 'Pmrt' and not 'mrt' - this all presumes the username
in UNIX is 'mrt' of course.

>Also, check you new dictionary file for radius 2.0. Some of the field names
>have been changed slightly, so you'll want to either fix your dictionary file
>to make the old field names work, or update your users file with the field
>names in the new dictionary file. BTW, this may seem obvious, but it took me
>while to notice ALL of the changes (especially the change from Van-Jacobsen to
>Van-Jacobson).

Did you also notice ALL of the old names still work? There is a section in
the dictionary that contains all of the 'old' entries - RADIUS 2.0 is
fully backwards compatible with a 1.16 user file. There are some new entries
and some old ones are officially changed now - either from mispellings in
the old ones or changes from the IETF WG.

-MZ

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