Accounting-Request packet shared secret fail (Alan DeKok) (Kevin Virk)

[Alan DeKok]

> On Aug 8, 2018, at 5:12 PM, Kevin Virk <Kevin.Virk at faithlife.com> wrote:
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> figured it out I had not included the line require-message-authentication=no in my clients.conf. Thank you for your help Alan!

  That wasn't the problem.  "Invalid request authenticator" means that the shared secret is wrong.  If you had set "request_message_authenticator = yes", then the message would have been "invalid message authenticator", or maybe "missing message authenticator"

  What I suspect happened is that you were editing clients.conf, and then *not* restarting the server.  After changing "require_message_authenticator = no" and restarting the server, it picked up the new secret.

  Alan DeKok.