[RADIATOR] Radiator Version 4.10 released

Hugh Irvine hugh at open.com.au
Thu Jun 28 00:15:27 CDT 2012


Hi Mikey -

Thanks!

Tested fine on Mac OS X 10.7.4.

I've also copied it up to the DEV box at NBNCo and it runs fine after installing Digest-SHA-5.71.

cheers

Hugh


On 28 Jun 2012, at 12:04, Mike McCauley wrote:

> We are pleased to announce the release of Radiator version 4.10
> 
> This version contains some new features and minor bug fixes. The prerequisites 
> now require Digest::SHA
> 
> As usual, the new version is available to current licensees from:
> http://www.open.com.au/radiator/downloads/
> 
> and to current evaluators from:
> http://www.open.com.au/radiator/demo-downloads
> 
> Licensees with expired access contracts can renew at:
> http://www.open.com.au/renewal.php
> 
> An extract from the history file
> http://www.open.com.au/radiator/history.html is below:
> 
> -----------------------------
> 
> Revision 4.10 (2012-06-28) Some significant new features. Bug fixes.
> 
> Added support for EAP-PWD per RFC 5931. EAP-PWD is highly secure (the password 
> is never transmitted, even in encrypted form), and does not require PKI 
> certificates, and also requires only 3 authentication round-trips. So it is 
> considered efficient to roll out in eg Eduroam and other environments. 
> Requires that the Radiator user database has access to the correct plaintext 
> password. Sample configuration file and patch for Crypt-OpenSSL-Bignum-0.04 is 
> included.
> 
> Added 2 Aruba VSAs to dictionary. Contributed by Matt Alexander.
> 
> Added Tropos and Fortinet VSAs dictionary.
> 
> Added Ukerna GSS and SAML VSAs to dictionary, with the kind assistance of Luke 
> Howard. Also modified packing routines to split UKERNA SAML-AAA-Assertion into 
> multiple attributes.
> 
> Removed use of 'use timelocal' from radiusd and radpwtst, code now uses 
> Time::Local instead.
> 
> Removed use of 'use newgotopt', all code now uses Getopt::Long instead.
> Added new parameter PasswordUriEscape to AuthBy URL. This optional parameter 
> specifies whether the password needs to be url-encoded or not. Options are 
> "Clear", "Encode". Contributed by Matthew Van Kuyk.
> 
> Added Nokia Siemens Networks (NSN) VSAs to dictionary.
> 
> Added support to radpwtst for new command line argument -alive to send 
> Accounting-Alive requests. Alive is not sent by default if accounting is 
> enabled.
> 
> Fixed an error in the RPM build control file Radiator.spec, which would cause 
> /usr/lib64/perl5/ to be deleted if the Radiator RPM package was erased.
> Improvements to Log SYSLOG and AuthLog SYSLOG modules so that multiple 
> differing module logging configurations do not confuse Sys::Syslog.
> 
> Fixed a problem in Server TACACSPLUS that prevented Client-Identifier being 
> set in Tacacs+ derived RADIUS requests. Reported by Tim Cheyne.
> 
> Improvements to AuthBy WIMAX, which now uses latest WiMAX TLV attribute 
> definitions for packing and unpacking of WiMAX TLV attributes. AuthBy WIMAX 
> now uses latet WiMAX-Capability TLVs. goodies/wimaxtest uses the TLVs, and 
> honours the -capability command line argument where you can specify an 
> alternate WiMAX-Capability.
> 
> Removed use of 'use newgotopt' from builddbm, buildsql, tacacsplustest, 
> diapwtst, restartwrappert. Code now uses Getopt::Long instead.
> 
> Added new parameter EAPTLS_AllowUnsafeLegacyRenegotiation to AuthBy *. For TLS 
> based EAP types such as TLS, TTLS and PEAP, and with versions of OpenSSL 
> 0.9.8m and later, this optional parameter enables legacy insecure 
> renegotiation between OpenSSL and unpatched clients or servers. OpenSSL 0.9.8m 
> and later always attempts to use secure renegotiation as described in RFC5746. 
> This counters the prefix attack described in CVE-2009-3555 and elsewhere.
> 
> Updated ACME VSA's in dictionary to add many missing VSAs and to adopt 
> attribute naming consistent with other RADIUS servers.
> 
> Updated sample certificates to expire Nov 15 21:48:28 2013 GMT
> 
> Added support for EAP expanded types per RFC 3748. EAPType parameter can now 
> be specified as a EAP type number, EAP extended vendornumber:typenumber or as 
> a traditional well-known EAP type name eg: EAPType TTLS, MSCHAP-V2, 
> 16776957:4244372217 where 16776957 is the expanded vendor number and 
> 4244372217 is the expanded type (this example is for 0xfffefd and 0xfcfbfaf9, 
> the vendor and type of the wpa_supplicant VENDOR-TEST expanded type). Included 
> module and config to support testing against wpa_supplicant VENDOR-TEST 
> expanded type.
> 
> Fixed a possible problem in Stream connections where connection failures may 
> not be detected correctly.
> Improvements to EAP-MSCHAPV2 handling in the case where the underlying 
> database has a database access problem, causing an IGNORE.
> 
> Testing with RSA Authentication Manager 7.1 SP4. No changes required.
> 
> Early release of AuthBy SAML2 module. This module fetches Moonshot/SAML2 
> Assertions for an (already autheticated) user from a Identity Provider (IdP) 
> and puts the assertion in a SAML-AAA-Assertion reply item. Caution: this is 
> beta code and not yet widely tested. Feedback requested. Currently only sends 
> ECP AuthnRequest requests (AAA AttributeRequest is not yet supported). Signing 
> of requests and Verifying of responses is not yet proven to work correctly.
> EAP-MSCHAPV2 now honours AuthenticateAttribute.
> New versions of Authen ACE4 version 1.4 ppms with AuthSDK 8.1 for Windows 32 
> and 64 bit.
> 
> Added new parameter RoundRobinOnFailure to all Sql clauses. Normally, if 
> Radiator gets an error or a timeout from a database connection it will try to 
> reconect to the database, starting with the first DBSource, and trying them 
> all in order until a successful reconnection. This flag forces the search to 
> start at the database following the current DBSource (if there is one). This 
> can help with some types of overloaded database that can be connected but then 
> timeout when a query is sent.
> Context is stored in $p->{EAPContext} for all EAP requests.
> 
> Fixed a problem where HUPping an evaluation vesion would result in messages 
> like Server started: Radiator 4.9 on fmsdev (LOCKED) (LOCKED) (LOCKED) 
> (LOCKED) (LOCKED)
> 
> Added support for new parameter RequireMessageAuthenticator in Client clauses. 
> Normally, Client clause checks the value of any Message-Authenticator 
> attribute (if present) in incoming requests (EAP or otherwise), and an 
> incorrect authenticator causes the request to be IGNOREd. The optional 
> RequireMessageAuthenticator flag causes this Client to require a (correct) 
> Message-Authenticator attribute to be present in all incoming requests.
> ServerHTTP now registers itself with Configurable.
> 
> Additional information in error logs from various TLS operations. Patch from 
> "Bjoern A. Zeeb". Thanks Bjoern.
> ClientList LDAP now supports file in PreHandlerHook and ClientHook.
> 
> Fixed a problem with SessionDatabsse SQL which could cause a crash if the 
> query contains %{Quote:...}. Patched by Eddie Stassen. Thanks.
> 
> Added VENDOR Ericsson 193 VSAs to dictionary.
> 
> Log FILE now supports %0 (priority) and %1 (og message) as special characters 
> in Filename parameter. AuthLog FILE now permits use of the '|' vertical bar 
> leading character in Filename to permit piping to an external program.
> 
> AuthBy LDAP2 and all other LDAP clauses now support an optional MultiHomed 
> flag parameter. If this is set then Net::LDAP will try all addresses for a 
> multihomed LDAP host until one is successful. Default is true (set).
> 
> Improvements to AuthBy SQL and AuthBy FREERADIUSSQL to improve compativ=bility 
> with some Oracle clients in the group checks. Reported by Emanuel Freitas.
> 
> Added VENDOR Adva 2544 VSAs to dictionary.
> 
> Added VENDOR Siemens 4329 VSAs to dictionary.
> 
> Fixed missing 3GPP- prefix for a number of 3GPP VALUE definitions in the 
> standard Diameter dictionary
> 
> Fixed problems in Diameter to RADIUS gateway that prevented RADIUS attributes 
> that are converted to Diameter Grouped attributes being parsed correctly.
> 
> For all TLS related operations, improved error logging if SSLeay::new fails.
> 
> Added StripFromReply and AllowInReply to the parameters permitted in AuthBy 
> DNSROAM. Patched by Bjoern A. Zeeb. Thanks.
> 
> Added VENDOR TERENA 25178 and eduroam-SP-Country to dictionary
> 
> Added more VENDOR Alcatel-ESAM attributes to dictionary. Contributed by Hugh 
> Irvine.
> 
> Added new module AuthBy RATELIMIT which can be used to limit the maximum 
> number of request per second to be served. If more than this number of request 
> are received in any second, they will be IGNOREd.
> 
> Added radiusd.conf, a sample Upstart script for Debian/Ubuntu. Contributed by 
> Adam Thompson
> 
> Server TACACSPLUS now honours DefaultRealm from the Client clause that matches 
> the incoming request. If defined in the Client clause, it willl override any 
> DefaultClient defined in the Server TACACSPLUS clause.
> 
> Global SocketQueueLength was not honoured when creating RADIUS server ports.
> 
> Fixed a typo in the help message in Monitor. Reported by Scott Bertilson.
> 
> Added Authen-Digipass-1.11-1.el6.x86_64.rpm (for perl 5.10, x64 on Centos 6 
> and RHEL6)
> 
> All TLS context configuration parameters, such as EAPTLS_CertificateFile now 
> honour special characters (such as %K etc) from the EAP identity request.
> 
> AuthBy WIMAX incorrectly set WiMAX-Capability Accounting-Capabilities to 0 
> (none) instead of 1 (session-based).
> 
> All EAP authentications now log at DEBUG level the elapsed time of the entire 
> conversation (since the EAP identity) in seconds (and microseconds if 
> Time::HiRes is available).
> 
> If a Client address cannot be resolved, the log message now includes the exact 
> address that was not able to be resolved.
> 
> Updated the prebuilt Authen-Digipass RPM package for RHEL 5 64 bit to version 
> 1.11.
> 
> Fixed a problem that prevented AuthBy SQLAUTHBY honouring AuthBySelect if 
> AuthBySelectParam was defined.
> 
> Removed incorrect -authen_args from help in tacacsplustest.
> Improvements to handling of EAP-GTC so that UsernameMatchesWithoutRealm is 
> honoured even if the EAP-GTC client sends the 'RESPONSE=identity\0password' 
> for of EAP-GTC response.
> 
> Added Arbor-Privilege-Level to dictionary. Thanks to Markku.
> RFC 2621 was inadvertently omitted from the distribution.
> 
> Added support for new configuration parameter. PacketDumpOmitAttributes 
> specifies a comma separated list of RADIUS attribute names which will be 
> omitted from RADIUS packet dumps in logs.
> 
> ServerHTTP did not permit the creation of ClientListSQL or ClientListLDAP 
> clauses. Reported by Albesiano Alberto.
> 
> Improved parsing of hooks and display of hooks by ServerHTTP. Reported by 
> Albesiano Alberto.
> 
> AddToReply AddToReplyIfNotExist when used in Handlers and Clients, would 
> incorrectly add attributes to Access-Rejects. This does not now occur. AuthURL 
> did not correctly honour AddToReply for Access-Accept and Access-Reject. 
> Reported by Albesiano Alberto.
> 
> RadSec is now an official IETF RFC 6614. RFC 6614 is now included in the 
> distribution. In accordance with RFC 6614, the default shared secret for 
> RadSec has been changed to 'radsec', UseTLS is enabled by default, and 
> TLS_RequireClientCert is enabled in Server RADSEC by default.
> 
> Added RuggedCom VSA RuggedCom-Privilege-level to dictionary.
> 
> Added Alvarion-WiMAX-Classifier VSA to attribute definiitons for WiMAX-Packet-
> Flow-Descriptor, per Alvarion's document 'RADIUS-WiMAX R3 Interop Spec_Rel 3 0 
> v 0 81.doc'
> 
> Added Alvarion-WiMAX-Classifier VSA to attribute definitions for WiMAX-Packet-
> Flow-Descriptor to support atttributes like: WiMAX-Packet-Flow-
> Descriptor=Alvarion-WiMAX-Classifier="ClassifierID=1,Priority=2,Direction=IN" 
> Also added Alvarion-R3-IF-Descriptor and Alvarion-DHCP-Option VSA tlvs to 
> dictionary, to support attributes like: Alvarion-DHCP-Option="Ref-R3-IF-
> Name=interface1,DHCP-Option-Container=container1" Alvarion-R3-IF-
> Descriptor=R3-IF-Name=aaa,R3-IF-ID=1,PDFID=2,IPv4-addr=1.2.3.4,IPv4-
> netmask=5.6.7.8,DGW-IPv4-add=9.8.7.6 Per Alvarion's document 'RADIUS-WiMAX R3 
> Interop Spec_Rel 3 0 v 0 81.doc'.
> 
> Fix to Fidelio interface so that LA messages are not queued unless there is a 
> current connection.
> 
> Fixed a problem where the LDAP group search did not correctly specify the 
> attributes to fetch, and therefore _all_ attributes were fetched, affecting 
> performance. Reported by Ben Carbery.
> Improvements to AuthBy SQLYUBIKEY to add support for CheckSecretId. If 
> CheckSecretId is set, then check that the secretId fetched from the database 
> matches the secretId encoded in the submitted Yubikey OTP. This increases the 
> security of the Yubikey OTP and is recommended best practice. Also improved 
> the documentation for for configuring yubikey.cfg and provided a better sample 
> database for use with yubikey.cfg
> Fixed a problem with EAP-FAST that prevented anaonymous provisioning in some 
> circumstances where the client asks for several ciphersuites. Reported by 
> Sudhir.Harwalkar.
> 
> Fixed a problem with Server TACACSPLUS and some authenticators such as AuthBy 
> ACE whcih issue AccessChallenge to get additional data from the user. Radiator 
> was sending the challenge as GETPASS rather than GETDATA and wasn't getting 
> the NOECHO flag. Tested against a Cisco Catalyst 3560 switch and also a Cisco 
> ASA 5510 firewall. Reported and patched by Richard Fairhall.
> 
> Updated Authen-Digipass and Authen-ACE4 Windows PPM packages to include Perl 
> 5.14 x86 and x64 packages. Also updated the prebuilt packages at 
> http://www.open.com.au/radiator/free-downlaods to include versions for Perl 
> 5.14 x86 and x64: Chipcard-PCSC.tar.gz Net-SSLeay.tar.gz Socket6.tar.gz Win32-
> Lsa.tar.gz
> 
> Fixed a problem where AuthBy LDAP2 would incorrectly log "DEBUG: No entries 
> for mikem found in LDAP database" if MaxRecords was set larger than the actual 
> number of LDAP records retreived.
> 
> Improvents to SQL logging shows the name of the database at DEBUG level when 
> connection attempts are made. Also prepareAndExecute and do functions log the 
> database name at DEBUG level. Requested by Philip Herbert.
> Fixed a problem where NoIgnoreDuplicates could cause a memory leak.
> 
> 
> Added VSAs for Ruckus Wireless to dictionary.
> 
> AuthBy NTLM did not reap ntlm_auth if it crashed or exited. Fixed a problem 
> that prevented the error being correctly printed if ntlm_auth if it crashed or 
> exited.
> 
> Removed use of Digest::SHA1, replaced with Digest::SHA,which is now included 
> with all perls. Digest::SHA is now an absolute prerequisite.
> 
> Added sample config platypus7.cfg for recent Platypus 7 database.
> h EAP-LEAP, EAP-TTLS, EAP-PEAP, EAP-MSCHAPV2, EAP-FAST, inner packets are now 
> logged at DEBUG level _after_ the PreHandlerHook (ie any) is run, so that 
> attributes added by the hook will be visible.
> 
> Fixed a problem where Client DupInterval 0 sometimes did not act as expected, 
> causing a leak in EAP contexts.
> Improved logging so that AuthBy ACE prompts are not broken up with newlines in 
> logs. Requested by Richard Fairhall.
> 
> Fixed a problem that preventeed TACACS+ which prevented AuthBy ACE new pin 
> mode and other challenges from working correctly. Patch provided by Richard 
> Fairhall.
> 
> Added support for KeepaliveTimeout to AuthBy RADSEC. KeepaliveTimeout is the 
> maximum time in seconds that a RadSec connection can be idle before a Status-
> Server request is sent to keep the TCP connection alive. This helps to keep 
> TCP connections open in the face of "smart" firewalls that might try to close 
> idle connections down. Defaults to 0 seconds, which means inactive.
> 
> Radpwtst has new option -chap_nc that sends a RADIUS CHAP request, but in the 
> old-fashioned way, with the CHAP Challenge in the authenticator, and not in a 
> separate CHAP-Challenge attribute.
> 
> Testing on Raspberry Pi running debian6-19-04-2012. It runs out of the box. 
> http://www.raspberrypi.org
> Added hextobase32.pl to goodies. Script to help with entering HOTP and TOTP 
> codes to Google Authenticator. Converts hex codes to base 32.
> 
> Added VSAs for Anagran ANA to dictionary. Thanks to Bob Shafer.
> 
> Added support for KeepaliveTimeout and UseStatusServerForFailureDetect to 
> 
> AuthBy RADIUS and AuthBy RADSEC. If UseStatusServerForFailureDetect is 
> enabled, use only Status-Server requests (if any) to determine that a target 
> server is failed when there is no reply. If not enabled (the default) use no-
> reply to any type of request. Uses NoreplyTimeout, MaxFailedRequests, 
> MaxFailedGraceTime, FailureBackoffTime during failure detection. If you enable 
> this, you should also ensure KeepaliveTimeout is set to a sensible interval to 
> balance between detecting failures early and loading the target server. 
> KeepaliveTimeout is the maximum time in seconds that a RADIUS connection can 
> be idle before a Status-Server request is sent to keep the connection alive. 
> Defaults to 0 seconds.
> -- 
> Mike McCauley                               mikem at open.com.au
> Open System Consultants Pty. Ltd
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Hugh Irvine
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Radiator: the most portable, flexible and configurable RADIUS server 
anywhere. SQL, proxy, DBM, files, LDAP, NIS+, password, NT, Emerald, 
Platypus, Freeside, TACACS+, PAM, external, Active Directory, EAP, TLS, 
TTLS, PEAP, TNC, WiMAX, RSA, Vasco, Yubikey, MOTP, HOTP, TOTP,
DIAMETER etc. 
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