allowed characters in User-Password?

[Nils-Henner Krueger]

Nils-Henner Krueger wrote:
> Alan DeKok wrote:
> 
>>>I miss something obvious, but although I printed out variables.txt
>>>and read it several times I still don't get the point.
>>
>>  '%' is a special character.
>>
>>>From variables.txt I understand that variables are referred to
>>
>>>by %{name}.
>>
>>  Or, % followed by one character.
>>
>>>Do I get it right, I put "34fgT\%45" instead of "34fgT%45"
>>>in the users file? 
>>
>>  Yes.
>>
>>>Which other special chars need to be treated this way?
>>
>>  None.
> 
> I'm still struggling on this subject.
> 
> Now that I have a test system available I made several tests with
> various radius and dialin client parameters with the following
> result: As long as a "%" is in the password, CHAP never works,
> regardless of escaping with "\%" or not, while PAP always works.
> 
> Am I lost with CHAP and "%" in password or can I do anything else
> with this problem?

To add something more:

I was able to test the whole thing with freeradius-0.9.3 and it
works, that means no problem with "%" in password using CHAP.
Something has changed on the way to 1.0.1, and because quoting
like Alan suggested doesn't help it might even be a bug?


nhk