(RADIATOR) hangs

[Hugh Irvine]

Hello Chris -

As Dave says, my recommendation is always to reject usernames that 
contain rubbish characters. It is just too dangerous to do otherwise.

regards

Hugh


At 12:17 -0400 01/6/29, Kitabjian, Dave wrote:
>OpenLDAP does not react very nicely to garbled data in Usernames; in fact,
>it hangs. And it can even hang Radiator, even though I don't exactly
>understand how that interaction between Radiator and the LDAP server works.
>
>The solution for us was to use a RewriteUsername to throw out characters in
>the Username except for ones we're expecting. Sometimes binary junk comes in
>as the Username from noisy phone lines, and that will filter out the junk. A
>similar solution is to use an early Handler to REJECT any authentication
>requests with garbled characters in the username.
>
>Dave
>
>>  From: "Chris van Meerendonk" <cvm at castel.nl>
>>
>>  Hello,
>>
>>  We have a problem with radiator in combination with Nortel
>>  CVX's. = Sometimes (once or twice a week) the radius server
>>  hangs. In that case = we have to give it a kill -9 and start
>>  it again. The logs doesn't show = any thing. Is this a known issue?
>>
>>  Our Radiator (problem occurs from a least 2.16.3 - 2.18.2)
>>  runs on linux = in combination with LDAP.
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