Password == "bla%1" (shooting into my foot)

[Guy Davies]

Hi Stefan,

I also saw this.  The escape character is \.

Special characters I would think of are !, #, *, ?, ^, $, &, % and
(obviously) \.  There may well be others.

Rgds,

Guy

> -----Original Message-----
> From: freeradius-users-bounces at lists.freeradius.org 
> [mailto:freeradius-users-bounces at lists.freeradius.org] On 
> Behalf Of Stefan Nehlsen
> Sent: 14 July 2005 15:45
> To: freeradius-users at lists.freeradius.org
> Subject: Password == "bla%1" (shooting into my foot)
> 
> 
> hello,
> 
> trying to get freeradius working (again) I figured out a 
> strange behaviour:
> 
> Authentication with CHAP as my testaccount failed until I 
> tried it with PAP first. After one (or more) successful 
> authentifications with PAP CHAP works.
> 
> It took some time until I figured out that my password 
> contained a % and the daemon tried some variable substitution.
> 
> don't do this!
> 
> How do I escape special chars in the users file and what 
> characters are special?
> 
> Stefan
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> Stefan Nehlsen | ParlaNet Administration | sn at parlanet.de | 
> +49 431 988-1260
> 

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