Re: Blank's in Usernames (fwd)

MegaZone (megazone@livingston.com)
Mon, 30 Jun 1997 05:21:42 -0700 (PDT)

Once upon a time Dietmar Stommel shaped the electrons to say...
>That means, RADIUS terminates usernames on ANY whitespace before check the
>auth. , but it send back the unterminated usrename to our MAX 4000 ! And

No - RADIUS never sends a username BACK. In fact, that is not allowed by
the RFC.

It is just that the NAS keeps using what the user actually typed and does
not truncate locally. And RADIUS accounting doesn't either, it is a simple
logging deamon that slavishly logs what it gets.

>so USER "test01" never log in, but he did, with a wrong Username ! And we
>have a problem with accounting !

You have to write your accounting scripts to truncate on whitespace too.

-MZ

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