Universal Password is encrypted. It's attribute name is npsmDistributionPassword I believe. As a further protection it is only readable by admin roles. You'll have to set up freeradius to bind with such a login and get the password and decrypt it. That function has been in freeradius for quite a while. That process will give freeradius (internally) a cleartext password to use for mschapv2. We moved to all M$ products a while back, but used freeradius against eDirectory for a couple of years before we moved to all Windows servers. It was low maintenance and worked well for us. The only issue was the moving auth target that M$ eap clients presented us. That's why we use IAS presently. At least when it breaks it's their fault. Mearl
-----Original Message----- From: freeradius-users- bounces+jmdanner=samford.edu@lists.freeradius.org [mailto:freeradius- users-bounces+jmdanner=samford.edu@lists.freeradius.org] On Behalf Of Jason C Brown Sent: Thursday, February 05, 2009 10:45 AM To: FreeRadius users mailing list Subject: Re: FreeRADIUS without Universal Password
I had to ask, I have people telling me that this is a limitation of only FreeRADIUS and not all RADIUS servers in general. There is a concern that the UP is being stored in clear text in Novell and we need to turn off that service and only use simple password. Since I am no Novell admin I really do not have a clue if we can encrypt the UP that is stored on the server or what other implications there are in turning off UP.
Jason Brown - RHCT, Security+, Linux+, Network+ Systems Administrator Enterprise Technology Services Ferris State University (231) 591-2687
On Feb 5, 2009, at 1:48 AM, Alan DeKok wrote:
Jason C Brown wrote:
Do you by chance know if every RADIUS server acts the same way? For instance would Steel Belted RADIUS require the use of UP as well?
Please read this explanation again:
The Novell password is not stored as an attribute unless Universal password is enabled. It exists in eDirectory, can be created/ modified by ldap as userpassword but cannot be returned in an ldap search.
The password can't be seen by *any* RADIUS server until it's stored as a Universal password.
This is a limitation of Novell's LDAP server, and applies to all LDAP clients, whether they are RADIUS servers, command-line clients, web servers, or anything else.
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