Re: Using the various User-Password, Chap-Password, etc... with MySQL

["liran tal" <liransgarage@gmail.com>]

Thanks Alan,

I've read the manpage on rlm_pap.
Regarding the User-Password attribute I understand that it is still support but we moved
to using Cleartext-Password which is essentially the same.

Regarding the other attributes like Crypt-Password or MD5-Password, the manpage says that
these contain the crypted/md5 hashed form of the password. Does that mean that if I use
those as the password attribute then in the database I'm supposed to use the MD5() function
to encrypt the password I save there?

This also brings me to another question, if I can encrypt like that a password in the database
even for the Cleartext-Password (or the deprecated User-Password) attribute as the manpage
also mentions that rlm_pap, if put last in the authorize section will try to decrypt the password.


Do I understand this correctly?


Regards,
Liran.

On 7/29/07, Alan DeKok <aland@deployingradius.com > wrote:

liran tal wrote:
> I was wondering if someone can clearly explain the use of different
> Password attributes when they're used in a scenario where MySQL is involved.

  The different password attributes have nothing to do with MySQL.

  Put a clear-text password in MySQL, and let the server deal with
different authentication protocols.

> The basic case of User-Password is clear.
> When the attribute in the radcheck table is User-Password then it's value is
> the password in clear text and the op is ==

  No.  See the recent documentation in 1.1.5 and following.  The
attribute is Cleartext-Password, and the operator is :=.

> What about Cleartext-Password? I've added this attribute with op of := and
> value password in clear text and used radtest as a test, and it results in
> just re-transmission of Access-Request queries, and basically not working.

  See the FAQ for "it doesn't work".  The FAQ, README, INSTALL, etc. all
say to run the server in debugging mode.

> What about Chap-Password, MD5-Password, SHA1-Password, what are their
> corresponding values and op like?

  Read the documentation in "man rlm_pap", as suggested in the README.

  Alan DeKok.
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