Password gets changed while proxying

[Francois Gaudreault]

Are you sure the RADIUS secret is the right one?


On Wed, Oct 2, 2013 at 12:14 PM, JB <list.freeradius at me.com> wrote:

> Hi!
>
> We're proxying auth requests to another RADIUS service and encounter the
> following problem:
> The password seems to get changed somewhere along the way.
> In our case, a 9 character password arrives as 16 character garbage at the
> home server, which then -of course- rejects the access request.
> Unfortunately, we don't have direct access to the home server, but the
> provider is convinced that the password gets mangled on our side.
>
> I can see the correct password in our FreeRADIUS debug logs.
> Other than preprocess, there's no module, which theoretically could change
> the password, before the proxy realm .
>
> My guess is that this is some sort of double encoding problem…
> Or maybe that the password doesn't get decoded properly on their side?
>
> Has anyone encountered a similar situation?
>
> Thanks!
> JB
>
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