[RADIATOR] Dictionary issue CUI attribute

[Heikki Vatiainen]

On 11/03/2019 14.59, Dubravko Penezic wrote:

> according RFC4372 https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4372 CUI
> Chargeable-User-Identity RADIUS attribute is string.
> 
> RADIATOR dictionary has follow definition :
> 
> ATTRIBUTE       Chargeable-User-Identity        89      binary
> 
> probably I may change it to string without any additional issues ?

Please keep it as binary. This is safe with CUI because it can contain 
any octet value.

What you are seeing above is old terminology that's present in 
Radiator's dictionary. Current RADIUS RFC 2865 is clear that 'string' is 
binary data. For this reason using 'binary' like above is actually the 
same as using 'string' in RFC 2865 terminology.

We'll clearify the documentation for this too.

If you are considering changing this because you are seeing issues with 
CUI, please let us know more.

Thanks,
Heikki

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