special characters in passwords + FR + ldap

[Turtiainen, Tero]

Hi,

> -----Original Message-----
> Date: Sat, 4 Mar 2006 15:19:32 -0600
> From: "Natalia Escalera" <nescalera at gmail.com>
>
> Hello,
>
> What is needed is that Freeradius accepts passwors even if special
> charaters are part of them. This is what is happening:
>
>
>             pass$word -> FR -> LDAP -> FR (Answer: wrong password)
>
> Any ideas of how to solve it?

This looks very much like the feature we have seen with FR 0.9.3.
Passwords with a "special character" are truncated, resulting in
password check failing.

http://lists.freeradius.org/mailman/htdig/freeradius-users/2005-July/045
560.html

This may be related to this bug, which is still open (I don't agree
with the severity=minor :)
http://bugs.freeradius.org/show_bug.cgi?id=261

We have made a small fix to the ldap-module (as seen in the link to the
mailing list archive). I don't know if this has been fixed in 1.1.0. I
once had a quick look at the ldap-module of 1.1.0, it should be quite
easy to test if it still fails.
--
Tero Turtiainen
Technology Services
Capgemini
tero.turtiainen at capgemini.com

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