(RADIATOR) Unix Passwords

[Hugh Irvine]

Hello Kyle -

If you use the User-Password or Encrypted-Password check with the appropriate 
prefix on the password, it will work fine.

Have a look at section 13.1.2 in the Radiator 2.18.1 reference manual for the 
list of recognised prefixes.

hth

Hugh


On Tuesday 05 June 2001 21:05, Kyle wrote:
> Hi,
>   We're running Radiator on a RH7.0 machine. This system will be
> replacing an older radius server that is running on a RH5.2 machine,
> using unix authentication. The crypt library on the 5.2 box is much
> different than on the 7.0 box, i.e the unix hash of fred on the 5.2
> machine is GaQhHAMXkpZUc , and on the 7.0 machine it shadows it as an
> md5 password. Radiator does not seem to accept the hash of this password
> if put into a mySql database for authentication using the
> Encrypted-Password check item. Is this being caused because of the
> difference in the crypt libraries? I have also tried putting {crypt}
> infront of the password (as shown in the manual page 110). Is there a
> known utility that could take the unix hash and convert it into md5? I
> have tried a utility to do this, unfortunatly it does not work with
> RH5.2, and I run into the problem with the crypt library if I copy the
> passwd file over to a RH7.0 system. Any advise is welcome, I've got
> aprox a thousand customers I need to port, and no log of original
> passwords.

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