Changing Reply-Message for expired Password

[Phil Mayers]

Tim White wrote:
> $ freeradius -v
> freeradius: FreeRADIUS Version 1.1.6, for host i486-pc-linux-gnu, built 
> on Jun  8 2007 at 17:17:46
> 
> I'm using Freeradius, with MySQL (rlm_sql) as the backend for Coova 
> Chilli (and it's JSON interface). Unfortunately, the reply-message when 
> the password is expired, contains a newline at the end, which breaks 
> chilli (due to the newline being in the JSON object, which breaks).
> Short of recompiling Freeradius with the newlines removed, is there an 
> easier way to change this reply-message?

Assuming you mean a radius Reply-Message attribute in the Access-Accept 
or Access-Reject, there are two possibilities:

  1. You have put the newline in yourself, either in files 
(/etc/raddb/users) or the SQL/LDAP/other lookup
  2. It's in their accidentally

I'm going to take a wild guess and say you forgot the closing " in 
/etc/raddb/users i.e. you have:

DEFAULT
	Reply-Message = "there will be a newline here

As advised in the docs and on this mailing list daily, run the server in 
debug mode (-X) to see where the newline is actually coming from.

> 
> It appears in some versions of FreeRadius there is a rlm_expiration 
> module or something which allows it to be changed?
> 
> If I have to upgrade manually (using Ubuntu Server), then I'm sure I can 
> do that. But I'd rather not upgrade yet (seeing as everything other than 
> that is work, so I don't want to break other stuff for a minor breakage).
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Tim
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