MD5 authentication

[manIP]

On Nov 14, 2007 8:23 PM, Alan DeKok <aland at deployingradius.com> wrote:
> manIP wrote:
> > Thank you for your answers alan...and deployingradius.com,it's a real gold mine.
>
>   I'm trying to expand that into a book.  So far, I'm (still) at about
> 150 pages of information I've seen *nowhere* else.  But between work,
> FreeRADIUS and something called "family", there isn't much time left
> over for the book.
>
> > I have checked out radiusd.conf and the rlm_pap manual pages and I
> > think I was unclear. The password is sent in "clear" but is stored in
> > MD5 (because of ethical reason, the password should not clearly appear
> > in the database).
> > I think I just need to change the authentication request...but I can't find it.
>
>   You can't change the authentication request.  It's controlled by the NAS.

I'm sorry again, I wouldn't have said "authentication request" but
"authentication SQL request" made by the freeradius server to the SQL
database.
I hope I was clear now.
BTW, good luck for your book...