Re: Dr. Watson!!!

Dale E. Reed Jr. ( (no email) )
Wed, 05 Aug 1998 09:19:04 -0700

Reid Sutherland wrote:
>
> Question is, why would Radius crash to begin with on a long username? Or
> does it for that matter? I found when I ran text mode it would puke all the
> time, but when I went straight ODBC it worked fine for awhile, then puke. I
> turned on Trim Name, seems ok now :/
> Either way something is wrong with 2.5, because 2.3 worked fine.

There was no 2.3 and 2.2 had the same problem. Its a buffer overrun
that causes the problem. The latest 2.5 will reject names over 128
characters even if trim name is enabled or not. That prevents the
buffer overrun and corrects the problem.

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