Please update your configuration so that the "known good" clear text password is in Cleartext-Password, and not in User-Password

Alan DeKok aland at deployingradius.com
Tue Feb 21 16:52:47 CET 2012


Yannick Barbeaux wrote:
> I have read in the messages archive that I should
> "replace in your configuration (either user file or database) all
> occurrences of "User-Password" with "Cleartext-Password"."

  *AND* change == to :=

> Yet in my DB, I have:
> 
> mysql> select * from radcheck;
> +----+----------+-----------+----+---------+
> | id | username | attribute | op | value   |
> +----+----------+-----------+----+---------+
> |  1 | sqltest  | Password  | == | testpwd |
> +----+----------+-----------+----+---------+

  This should be

> |  1 | sqltest  | Cleartezt-Password  | := | testpwd |

> If I change the attribute to "Cleartext-Password" instead of "Password",
> the connection is rejected (ERROR: No authenticate method (Auth-Type)
> found for the request: Rejecting the user)
> 
> I did grep "Cleartext" in /etc/freeradius/* but found nothing.
> 
> Should I really worry about that warning and if yes, how can I get rid
> of that message?

  Follow the documentation which says how to use Cleartext-Password

  Alan DeKok.




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