Re: "Shared secret is incorrect" - but it is identical!

Alan DeKok wrote:

(1) The shared secret is wrong (2) The code is buggy

There are no alternatives.

This is often due to broken MD5 libraries, or 32/64-bit issues. But FreeRADIUS hasn't had those kind of bugs for *years*.

Yep, you were right, there must be some corruption or crap on the Fedora system I was using as a test client. I installed 1.1.6 on a Suse box I have, copied exactly the same raddb onto it, and radtest worked first time.