Password gets changed while proxying

JB list.freeradius at me.com
Wed Oct 2 18:30:40 CEST 2013


Yes, we double checked the secret. 

Am 02.10.2013 um 18:20 schrieb Francois Gaudreault <fgaudreault at cloudops.com>:

> 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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