Hello everyone - As Adam has discovered, the DBSource, DBUsername and DBAuth parameters to an AuthBy SQL clause are now able to include the special characters as defined in section 6.2 in the Radiator 2.17.1 reference manual. regards Hugh On Mon, 27 Nov 2000, Adam Spann wrote: > Something I will have to keep in mind when doing my scarey passwords :) > > Thanks Hugh. > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Hugh Irvine [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Monday, 27 November 2000 1:36 PM > To: Adam Spann; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: (RADIATOR) Possible Bug SQL Password incorrectly > interpreted. > > > > Hello Adam - > > > > > Hi Huge and Mike, > > > > I recently upgraded to 2.17.1.from 2.16.3 on a system which I have not yet > > deployed, just testing. > > > > I had configured the Radius server to do authentication by file, and to > send > > Accounting to a Mysql Database. > > > > Everything worked correctly with 2.16.3 but when I upgraded to 2.17.1 the > > Accounting records failed. > > > > Here is a snap shot of the trace 4 > > > > Mon Nov 27 11:07:24 2000: DEBUG: Handling request with Handler > 'Request-Type > > = Accounting-Request' > > Mon Nov 27 11:07:24 2000: DEBUG: Adding session for testuser, > > 203.32.160.240, 1234 > > Mon Nov 27 11:07:24 2000: DEBUG: Handling with Radius::AuthSQL > > Mon Nov 27 11:07:24 2000: ERR: Could not connect to SQL database with > > DBI->connect dbi:mysql:radius, username, XXXXXXXX: Access denied for > user: > > 'username@localhost' (Using password: YES) > > Mon Nov 27 11:07:24 2000: ERR: Could not connect to any SQL database. > > Request is > > ignored. Backing off for 600 seconds > > > > I changed the password for access to the database it is working again. > > > > my Previous password had '%d' which the trace 4 actually showed Radiator > to > > read this as being '27' all other characters were as they should have > been. > > > > Yes. In Radiator 2.17.1 we added special character handling in the AuthBy > SQL > parameters, so "%d" was being expanded to the day of the month. > > regards > > Hugh > > > -- > Radiator: the most portable, flexible and configurable RADIUS server > anywhere. Available on *NIX, *BSD, Windows 95/98/2000, NT, MacOS X. > - > Nets: internetwork inventory and management - graphical, extensible, > flexible with hardware, software, platform and database independence. -- Radiator: the most portable, flexible and configurable RADIUS server anywhere. Available on *NIX, *BSD, Windows 95/98/2000, NT, MacOS X. - Nets: internetwork inventory and management - graphical, extensible, flexible with hardware, software, platform and database independence. === Archive at http://www.starport.net/~radiator/ Announcements on [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' with 'unsubscribe radiator' in the body of the message.
