Freeradius as a proxy to Windows IAS - reserved characters in shared secret?

[Alan DeKok]

clive gould wrote:
> I've just been doing some research on the net and found this link on
> the GNU radius client reference page:
> 
> http://www.gnu.org/software/radius/manual/html_chapter/radius_13.html#SEC262
>
> It looks as if the radtest client has reserved characters.

  The characters are *escaped*, not *reserved*.

> Does anyone know if this applies to shared secrets with the Freeradius
> server as well???

  The shared secrets in FreeRADIUS have *no* reserved characters.  They
*can* be double-quoted strings, with all of the usual conditions for
escaping characters.

  This is less of a FreeRADIUS-specific issue than a standard Unix way
of doing things.

  Alan DeKok.