Authentication succeeds even with incorrect shared secret.

Alan DeKok aland at ox.org
Fri Sep 2 17:07:34 CEST 2005


"Sayantan Bhowmick" <sbhowmick at novell.com> wrote:
>  So if I understand correctly in case of authentication methods like
> CHAP the client does NOT SEND ANYTHING  SIGNED with the "shared secret"
> and as such the RADIUS server CANNOT verify whether the client has the
> proper shared secret. In this case it is the clients job to verify the
> server's reply. Am I correct?

  Yes.

  Alan DeKok.



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