I was mixed up on what table I am talking about its the radcheck table. I was using navicat to set the attribute to Crypt-Password and refreshing the database. The password stayed in plain text.
On Mon, Oct 8, 2012 at 4:29 PM, Matthias Nagel <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, > > first, please use the correct way of quoting for mailing list. This is to > say, write your comments below the original text that it refers to. That way > readers who pick up a thread later can follow more easily. But now back to > topic. > > Am Montag 08 Oktober 2012, 16:17:52 schrieb jon jon: >> On Mon, Oct 8, 2012 at 4:02 PM, Matthias Nagel >> <[email protected]> wrote: >>> Hello, >>> >>>> I have set up FreeRADIUS Version 2.1.10 on an Ubuntu server 12.04, >>>> Mysql Server version: 5.5.24. Everything is up and running but the >>>> users passwords are stored in plain text in raddacct. I tried changing >>>> the attribute to Crypt-Password but it doesn't change anything. >>> >>> What do you mean by "doesn't change anything"? If you have changed the >>> attribute name to "Crypt-Password" and you also modified the attribute's >>> value accordingly, what do you expect? If it still works, then be happy. >> >> doesn't change anything = password is still showing as plain text. What do >> mean by " modified the attribute's value accordingly"? > > You wrote that you changed clear text passwords to crypt-passwords. This > means to me you updated your database, hence your database does not show > clear text passwords anymore. What exactly did you do, when you changed from > clear text to crypt-passwords? > > I assumed to did something like this: > > UPDATE radcheck set attribute = 'Crypt-Password', value = > SOME_FANCY_CONVERT_FUNCTION( value ) WHERE some_senseful_condition_here; > > Anyway, I now notice that you were speaking of "radacct". This table is not > to show any password at all. > >>> >>> >>>> Do I >>>> need to make a change to a config file also? Not sure what type of >>>> encryption would be best one that works MD5? >>> >>> For a copatibilty of password encryption schemes and protocols, see here: >>> http://deployingradius.com/documents/protocols/compatibility.html >>> >>>> Thanks, >>> >>> Matthias > > - > List info/subscribe/unsubscribe? See http://www.freeradius.org/list/users.html - List info/subscribe/unsubscribe? See http://www.freeradius.org/list/users.html
