Can use "auth" with radclient but not "status"

[Stephane Bortzmeyer]

On Thu, Jan 31, 2008 at 03:22:41PM +0100,
 Alan DeKok <aland at deployingradius.com> wrote 
 a message of 18 lines which said:

> The purpose of "radclient" is to send *anything* in a RADIUS packet,
> even things that violate the RFC's.  In this case, you will need to
> manually add a Message-Authenticator to the input attributes.

OK, many thanks, now it works:

lilith:~ % echo "Message-Authenticator = 42" | radclient jezabel status toto
Received response ID 131, code 2, length = 49
        Reply-Message = "FreeRADIUS up 0 days, 00:02"

Which RFC should I read, by the way? 2865 says very little about
Server-Status.

Otherwise, your explanation makes sense. But, in that case, the
example in the man page of radclient is wrong:

EXAMPLE
       A  sample session that queries the remote server for Status-Server (not
       all servers support this, but FreeRADIUS has configurable  support  for
       it).

              $ echo "User-Name = fnord" | radclient 192.168.1.42 12 s3cr3t
              Sending request to server 192.168.1.42, port 1812.
              radrecv: Packet from host 192.168.1.42 code=2, id=140, length=54
                  Reply-Message = "FreeRADIUS up 21 days, 02:05"