Chap Authentication Error

[Alan DeKok]

Daniel Niasoff wrote:
> This is what I see in the logs
> 
> Fri Sep 14 17:22:37 2012 : Info: [chap] login attempt by "f3207920 at surf4sure.net" with CHAP password Fri Sep 14 17:22:37 2012 : Info: [chap] Using clear text password "1234" for user f3207920 at surf4sure.net authentication.
> Fri Sep 14 17:22:37 2012 : Info: [chap] Password check failed

  Well, that's clear.

> However if I try to repeat the test using radtest with -t chap it works fine.
> 
> Fri Sep 14 17:22:32 2012 : Info: [chap] login attempt by "f3207920 at surf4sure.net" with CHAP password Fri Sep 14 17:22:32 2012 : Info: [chap] Using clear text password "1234" for user f3207920 at surf4sure.net authentication.
> Fri Sep 14 17:22:32 2012 : Info: [chap] chap user f3207920 at surf4sure.net authenticated successfully
> 
> Now where do I go from here?

  Fix the client so it works.

  You can believe one of two things:

a) FreeRADIUS randomly does CHAP wrong

b) the client is broken

  My vote is (b).

  Alan DeKok.