Re: [Emerald] Radius Authentication Problems

Geoffrey L. Scully ( (no email) )
Wed, 24 Mar 1999 09:07:45 -0800

we noticed quite a few of our customers having the same thing happen. Their
passwords were all of a sudden changed after an upgrade.

"David W. Kornitz" wrote:

> We have recently upgraded to Emerald 2.5. Since doing so, we started
> noticing users having more problems getting authenticated. Running Radius
> in debug mode, the following occurs: (Username and Password have been
> change.)
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> -----------------------
>
> radrecv: Request from host cc5fc483 code=1, id=165, length=60
> NAS-Identifier = 127.0.0.1
> NAS-Port = 0
> User-Name = "USERX"
> Password = "[\300Rmz\373\320\264\236\305o3\337\336\376["
> rad_authenticate_ODBC() Password =
> "[\300Rmz\373\320\264\236\305o3\337\336\376["
>
> SQL Statement: Select DateDiff(Minute, GetDate(), DateAdd(Day,
> (ma.Extension+ma.OverDue+1), maExpireDate)), DateDiff(Minute, GetDate(),
> DateAdd(Day, sa.Extension+1, saExpireDate)), sa.AccountID, sa.AccountType,
> sa.Password, sa.Login, sa.Shell, ma.Balance, ma.OverLimit From
> MasterAccounts ma, SubAccounts sa Where (sa.Login='USERX' or
> sa.Shell='USERX' or sa.Email='USERX') AND ma.CustomerID=sa.CustomerID and
> sa.Active<>0 and ma.Active<>0
>
> Decrypted Password: PASSWORDX
> Database Password: WINNT\
> ==============================================
> (WINNT) User:²Ä_Ì Domain: Password:PASSWORDX
> ==============================================
> Sending Reject of id 165 to cc5fc483 (lasagna.compufort.com)
> SQL Statement: INSERT INTO RadLogs(RadLogMsgID, LogDate, Username, Data,
> CallerID) VALUES (11, GetDate(), 'USERX', 'PASSWORDX', NULL)
>
> User: USERX Bad Password
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> -----------------------
>
> Each time the attempt fails (provided the password is correctly entered) on
> the line:
>
> ==============================================
> (WINNT) User:²Ä_Ì Domain: Password:PASSWORDX
> ==============================================
>
> the username is not correct. In this particular example, it is not
> intelligible and in other cases you'll see "NAS-PORT", "User-Name" or
> something similar. The problem occurs on both from "RADLOGIN", as well as,
> the two TOTAL CONTROL racks.
>
> Two eliminate the server as the source of the problem, we installed EMERALD
> 2.5 with RADIUS on a new machine (fresh install) and the same problem
> reoccurred.
>
> The problem is not constant, after three or four failed attempts it just
> starts working again and then stops again.
>
> Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
>
> David Kornitz
> Compufort
>
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