I tried to replace a very old Livingston RADIUS installation by FreeRadius 1.0.1 (using the Solaris pkg from Blastwave). I used the "compat = cistron" directive to simply continue with the existing users file for a first test. At first sight everything worked fine but after following the log for a while it turns out that (too) many users were rejected. All the rejected accounts have a "%" sign in the User-Password. Are there any restrictions on the character set used for the User-Password attribute? Which special chars are forbidden? Where can I find information on that subject? How can I get around this problem? There are a few thousand dialin accounts, out of them about 300 have a "%" in the password so I can't simply call them and solve that directly, not speaking about other chars that might make trouble, too. Thanks for help! nhk