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Re: [Help-gnu-radius] secret length in client file
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Sergey Poznyakoff |
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Re: [Help-gnu-radius] secret length in client file |
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Fri, 12 Oct 2001 12:16:00 +0300 |
> It seems to be quit simple, just increase AUTH_PASS_LEN in radius.h,
> e.g. #define AUTH_PASS_LEN 32.
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> Is there a reason why AUTH_PASS_LEN is 16 and if I increase
> AUTH_PASS_LEN, what bad things will happen?
The request authenticator length is limited to 16 octets by RFC
2138. If you change this value the request authentication algorithm
will malfunction, since NAS and server will be using different
authenticator lengths.
Regards,
Sergey