Usernames with escape sequences

[James Sumners]

On 2015-03-11 11:08:08 +0000, Nikolai Kondrashov said:

> Hi Alan,
> 
> On 02/27/2015 08:23 PM, Alan DeKok wrote:
>> On Feb 27, 2015, at 10:49 AM, James Sumners <james.sumners at clayton.edu> wrote:
>>> So, the version included with RHEL 7. If this is a bug in the package, 
>>> I will take it up with Red Hat. Is there a Freeradius bugzilla I can 
>>> link to? I only brought this to the list because I haven't had any luck 
>>> whatsoever searching the Internet for information on it.
>> 
>> Try 3.0.7, and set “correct_escapes = true” in radiusd.conf.
>> 
>> You will have to double-check your use of \\ in the configuration, 
>> though.  You want to use fewer backslashes.  A lot fewer.  Usually half.
> 
> I'm looking for a solution for this. Do I understand it right, that 3.0.4 has
> escape fixes only for regex matching?
> 
> Also, how hard do you think it would be to backport "correct_escapes" to
> 3.0.4?
> 
> Thank you.
> 
> Nick

I _finally_ got a chance to work on this some more. RH is working on a 
fix for their packages in 7.2, but I can't wait that long. So I built 
3.0.7 packages from the tarball on freeradius.org -- 
https://github.com/jsumners/freeradius-rpm

That works just fine (except for the bit where the systemd service 
doesn't get enabled; just `sytemctl enable radiusd`).

I literally copied my local additions to the Freeradius config into new 
files in the configuration installed by those packages and it worked.