Problem with Digest/OpenSER/Radius

Alan DeKok aland at deployingradius.com
Fri Mar 16 01:55:00 CET 2007


Dariusz Dwornikowski wrote:
> as i understand, I get Digest of a triple:
> 
> user:realm:password. This is MD5 hashed.

  Then you don't have the passwords stored in MD5 hashed form.  The MD5
hash includes *more* than just the password.

  Please be specific in describing what you're doing.  It matters a LOT.

> Radius gets it and takes the same from db and calculates it compares  
> and says Access-Accept or Reject. There is no way in my mind to have  
> my passwords not in cleat text in db. Am i correct?

  You are almost always better off storing clear-text passwords in the DB.

  Alan DeKok.
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