Re: (PM) RADIUS username length? (fwd)

MegaZone (megazone@livingston.com)
Fri, 16 Jan 1998 11:35:35 -0800 (PST)

Once upon a time bp shaped the electrons to say...
>OK, thx for these infos, but - hell - I am NOT willing to use system
>password databases (NEITHER /UNIX NOR /WINNT). I am using the users
>textfile in RADIUS itself... THERE (YES) there is written its limited
>to 8 characters and this is definately too short!!! So, again, when

Locally in the users file? I think it is 8 but I haven't bothered with
it for a while.

I don't know what all the fuss is about. How would I handle it? I'd
try it for myself and report the results back here and be done.

useruser Password="fubar"
Service-Type = Login-User,
Login-Host = x.x.x.x

useruseruser Password="fubar"
Service-Type = Framed-User,
Framed-Protocol = PPP

Now, if you try to login at the prompt as 'useruseruser' and you get PPP -
then it recognized more than 8 characters, so it is probably 63. If you
get shell, then it truncated to 8.

Of course, there is always looking into the source code. Personally I'd
always use the system files so I don't mess with the user file much at
all.

-MZ

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