Cisco VSA hack

[Ilia Chipitsine]

> All,
>
> I've set with_cisco_vsa_hack = yes in radiusd.conf on a box running
> FreeRADIUS 1.0.4, but when running "freeradius -X", I still see accounting
> packets with un-hacked Cisco-AVPair entries during debug:
>
> rad_recv: Accounting-Request packet from host xxxx:1636, id=198, length=292
>         ...
>         Cisco-AVPair = "ssid=default"
>         ...
>
> I expected to see:
>
>         ssid = "default"

it decodes only "dictionary"ed fields.
make sure, "ssid" is described in some dictionary

>
> or similar.  Is this output merely the accounting request packet as it's
> received, before preprocessing and the cisco_vsa_hack taking place?
>
> A quick check of the source code leads me to suspect that the VSA hack won't
> cater for pairs such as 'Cisco-AVPair = "ssid=default"', but my C knowledge
> is virtually nonexistant and I may well be misunderstanding the code.
>
> Can anyone clarify what's happening, please?  I'd be pleasantly surprised if
> I'm wrong and I really can start using the contents of Cisco-AVPairs for
> accounting.
>
> Best wishes,
>
>
> Peter.
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