Hi Richi,
On Jun 6, 10:30pm, Richi Plana wrote:
> Subject: Re: (RADIATOR) CHAP HOWTO
> Hi, Mike, et al.
>
> On Sun, 6 Jun 1999, Mike McCauley wrote:
>
> |o| > Just wondering how to check the attributes CHAP-Password and
> |o| > CHAP-Challenge. Are there methods in any of the Radiator objects that
> |o| > would allow ones own written AuthBy method to check this attrib?
> |o| >
> |o| Radius::Radius::check_plaintext_password does most of the hard
> |o| work of checking a password against whatever arrived in the radius
> |o| request, be it CHAP, PAPA or whatever.
>
> It's a good function. Works like a charm. Is there some kind of
> documentation on Radius::Radius or the whole Radius module (as implemented
> in Radiator)? Seems there are a lot nifty functions just waiting to be
> used.
The only doc of the functions is in the file itself.
>
> BTW, although check_plaintext_password works as advertised, it won't work
> for us because it just hit me: we've stored clients' password using DES
> crypt(). If Radius::Radius::check_plaintext_password can work with that,
> I'd like to know how!
Then you lose. Its not possible to do CHAP authentication unless you have the
plaintext password available.
Cheers.
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