Problem: switch authentication against Freeradius server

[Roberto Carna]

Dear Alan, my shared secret is "testing123" in bothe switch and
freeradius.....it's the default shared secret as you can see....so I get
lost :(


2013/5/23 Alan DeKok <aland at deployingradius.com>

> Roberto Carna wrote:
> > But know I'm trying to authenticate some Allied switch users against the
> > same Freeradius server...in the Allied switch I've defined the radius
> > server IP, port and secret, and when I try to telnet this switch from
> > other computer I fail and get this Freeradius log:
>
>   It helps to read the debug output.
>
> > rad_recv: Access-Request packet from host 10.4.133.254 port 49154, id=0,
> > length=76
> >         User-Name = "bapro2"
> >         User-Password = "&kq\356\275`_R\005\034\262m\263-\r\275"
> ...
> >   WARNING: Unprintable characters in the password.  Double-check the
> > shared secret on the server and the NAS!
>
>   Does that mean anything to you?
>
> > I see this line is completed with a wrong or cipher password, I don't
> > know why:
> >
> > [pap] login attempt with password "&kqî½`_R??²m³- ½"
> >
> > Please can you guide me in this problem ???
>
>   I did.  I made FreeRADIUS print out a big WARNING message which you're
> ignoring.
>
>   Read it.  Follow the instructions.
>
>   And don't argue that the secret is correct.  It's not.  Fix it.
>
>   Alan DeKok.
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