Issue when freeRadius is accessed using JRadius Client.

[Ivan Kalik]

> I am using JRadius Client with freeRadius server for user authentication.
> The following code is used to access freeRadius server:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> AttributeFactory.loadAttributeDictionary("net.jradius.dictionary.AttributeDictionaryImpl");
> InetAddress addr = InetAddress.getByName(radiusServerAddress);
> RadiusClient radiusClient = new RadiusClient(addr, secretKey);
> AttributeList attributeList = new AttributeList();
> attributeList.add(new Attr_UserName(userName));
> attributeList.add(new Attr_NASPortType(Attr_NASPortType.Ethernet));
> attributeList.add(new Attr_NASPort(new Long(1)));
> AccessRequest request = new AccessRequest(radiusClient, attributeList);
> request.addAttribute(new Attr_UserPassword(password));
> RadiusPacket reply = radiusClient.authenticate(request, new
> PAPAuthenticator(), 0);
> System.out.println("Received: " + reply.toString());
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> The server authenticates the user successfully but the response message is
> printed as follows. So I couldn't read the response values.
>      Unknown-Attribute(6) = [Binary Data (length=4)]
>      Unknown-Attribute(7) = [Binary Data (length=4)]
>
> The /usr/local/etc/raddb/users configuration is as follows :
>     dave   Cleartext-Password := "public"
>            Service-Type = Framed-User,
>            Framed-Protocol = PPP,
>
> Please help me to resolve this issue. Am I missing anything?

You have to decode the reply. Just like you encoded the request.

Ivan Kalik
Kalik Informatika ISP