How to send empty value via radclient?

[Arran Cudbard-Bell]

On Jun 27, 2011, at 10:34 AM, Alexander Kubatkin wrote:

> 27.06.11 11:45, Arran Cudbard-Bell пишет:
>> 
>> On Jun 27, 2011, at 9:38 AM, Arran Cudbard-Bell wrote:
>> 
>>> RFC 2865 Page 24
>>> 
>>>     string    1-253 octets containing binary data (values 0 through
>>>               255 decimal, inclusive).  Strings of length zero (0)
>>>               MUST NOT be sent; omit the entire attribute instead.
>>> 
>>> If your NAS requires zero length strings then its breaking the RADIUS protocol standard.
>> 
>> Couldn't you just create default profiles and assign them instead?

You could also try sending a null character `printf "\0"`, radclient *should* include an attribute with this value. 

> 
> This is only exit for now and it was first what has been done.
> Thanks for your answer.
> I will try to terror vendor of my box.
> 
> Just for clarify - this restriction applied to VSA attributes? or only
> standard? or whole attributes?

It's any string type attribute, both VSA and standard. 

-Arran

Arran Cudbard-Bell
a.cudbardb at freeradius.org

RADIUS - Half the complexity of Diameter