PAM radius module and "Prompt" attribute.

[Alan DeKok]

ugengia-reg at yahoo.it wrote:
> All is working well, but I found a problem when the PAM module receives an Access-Challenge.
> 
> Here is the problem: even if the RADIUS server sends a Prompt="No Echo" attribute, my PAM conversation function receives a PAM_PROMPT_ECHO_ON msg_style instead of a PAM_PROMPT_ECHO_OFF.

 See: http://bugs.freeradius.org/show_bug.cgi?id=609

> As far as I know the Prompt attribute is not mandatory for RFC 2865 compliance, in fact this attribute is specified into RFC 2869 - Radius Extensions.
> 
> The question is: will the Prompt attribute be supported in a future release of the PAM service module?

  Possibly, yes.

  Alan DeKok.