(RADIATOR) Re: Fwd: (RADIATOR-ANNOUNCE) Problems authenticating PAP or CHAP

[Hugh Irvine]

Hello Sigui -
>
> We are installing RADIATOR and we have found compatibility problems
> with our existing user base when trying to authenticate PAP or CHAP
>
> We have radiator v2. running on Solaris 8 and Max Ascend 6 boxes.
> Some users are on POTS (Dial up) others on ISDN.
>
> Are there any settings in Radiator that will allow us authenticate them
> with either PAP or CHAP .We've set the Ascends to either authentication
> but it fails for the users that (apparently) can only do PAP.
>
> The only way we can make  them work is if we put all the "PAP only users"
> through and Ascend were Authentication is set to PAP and the users that
> do CHAP on Ascends that are set to CHAP.
>

Radiator will automatically deal with either PAP or CHAP, however you must 
have clear text passwords in your user database to be able to use CHAP. If 
you have encrypted passwords in your user database, you can only use PAP.

regards

Hugh


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