<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "><div><div><div style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; ">Hi List,</div><div style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; "><br></div><div style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; ">I have set up Freeadius 2.1.10 to authenticate with ldap. </div><div style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; ">I have a cisco switch and using my Mac Laptop to connect.</div><div style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; "><br></div><div style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; ">If I try to connect using ldap credentials the authentication fails, though the same credentials work if I use them with radtest on the localhost</div><div style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; "><br></div><div style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; ">If I try to connect using a username defined as clear text in the users file, the authentication succeeds.</div><div style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; "><br></div><div style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; ">As I understood that ldap will only accept clear text passwords, I am wondering why the radtest succeeds while connecting from the Mac OS fails, is the Mac OS not sending the password in clear text?</div><div style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; "><br></div><div style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; ">I appreciate any help understanding this.</div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 12px; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px; "><br></span></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 12px; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px; "><br></span></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 12px; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px; "><br></span></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 12px; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px; "><br></span></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 12px; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px; "><br></span></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 12px; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px; "><br></span></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 12px; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px; ">Wassim C. 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