(RADIATOR) radiator not padding out short passowrd fields

[Mike McCauley]

Hello Tariq,


On Wednesday 01 September 2004 00:38, Tariq Rashid wrote:
> to continue the discussion on the lucent stinger which is sending out short
> password fields (much less than 16 octets) ...
>
> we suspect that because other radius servers work - they may be copying the
> password from the radius packet to a zero padded buffer... which a
> perl-based radiator may not... hence failing the authentication.
>
> is this correct?
>
> that is not to say that the radiator behaviour is incorrect - we know that
> the lucent is behaving badly.
Correct.

>
> also - the radiators which fail these authentications is at version 3.5 ...
> and 3.8 doesn't exhibit this problem. is this an issue that is known to
> have been fixed since that version?

I cant see mention of any relevant changes between those versions. If you 
would care to send an example packet at trace level 5, along with  the shared 
secret and the correct password, I can confirm your observations.

Cheers.

 
>
> tariq
>
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