Digest Authentication with a Cisco device

Alan DeKok aland at deployingradius.com
Wed Oct 2 22:18:47 CEST 2013


Philip Walenta wrote:
> I'm trying to do what might be an odd configuration.
> 
> I'm attempting to digest auth users without caring about their
> "User-name" attribute.

  That should work.

> So in other words I want to auth on the "Digest-User-Name = "testuser""
> that comes in as part of the Digest-Attributes and a password.

  You should be able to do that.

> So in the users file I have "DEFAULT          Cleartext-password :=
> "password""

  That will allow ANY user to authenticate using ANY authentication
method, and with that password.

> I created a partial digest file but it appears to be ignored on every test:
> Digest-User-Name = "testuser"
> Digest-Algorithm = "MD5"
> Digest-QOP = "auth"

  I don't know what that means.  What file is this?  Why did you create
it?  What's reading it?

> In the debug I see:
> [digest] A1 = testuser:sp.eng:passwod
> 
> I can change to username to anything I want and as long as the password
> is correct the user will auth.

  That seems to be doing what you want.

> Am I attempting something impossible or doing it incorrectly?

  I'm not entirely sure what you're doing, so I can't really answer that.

  Alan DeKok.


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