Problem: switch authentication against Freeradius server

[Alan DeKok]

Roberto Carna wrote:
> Dear Alan, my shared secret is "testing123" in bothe switch and
> freeradius.....it's the default shared secret as you can see....so I get
> lost :(

  No, it's not the same shared secret.  I don't know what's going on.
But the message "Unprintable characters in the password" means that the
shared secret is wrong.

  NOTHING ELSE will cause the problem.

  Go back and read the REST of the debug output.  Verify that the
"client" section printed out by the server has the CORRECT shared secret.

  i.e. you can sit there and say "but it's right!" all day.  That will
NOT fix the problem.  FreeRADIUS will NOT magically start working.

  The shared secret is wrong.  Go fix it.

  Alan DeKok.