AW: Problem with CHAP Authentification

[Alan DeKok]

irosAurus wrote:
> it set up a testuser and if I try a local radcheck on the ubuntu machine,
> which hosts the freeradius, everything works out fine. 
>  
> maw at maweee:~$ radtest user 123 192.168.1.2 0 testsecret
> Sending Access-Request of id 2 to 192.168.1.2 port 1812
> 	User-Name = "user"
> 	User-Password = "123"

  You do realize that's not doing CHAP, right?

  See "radtest -h" for instructions on how to do CHAP authentication
with radtest.

> when I logon to the wifi, I get a right IP (from 192.168.182.0/24) from the
> hotspot and I am redirected to hotspotlogin.cgi, where I put in the exact
> same user and password as with the radtest, but login failed. 
...
> Mon Jun 11 15:49:49 2012 : Info: [chap] Using clear text password "123" for
> user user authentication.
> Mon Jun 11 15:49:49 2012 : Info: [chap] Password check failed

  The hostspot device is NOT calculating the correct CHAP-Password.  Go
fix it.

  When you have chap working with radtest, this will prove that the
problem is the hotspot.

  Alan DeKok.