Re: [Help-gnu-radius] simple user entry complaining about "attribute `Password'"

[Greg G]

Gerald wrote:

> gnu-radius 1.0 is complaining about the entry in my users file for
> username1. Specifically:
>
> Nov 24 12:48:45 Main.error: /usr/local/etc/raddb/users:18: unknown
> attribute `Password'
>
> I know this worked in the past as I left my test account in there should I
> have to do emergency testing of things. Did this change when I flipped to
> 1.0 and I missed it altogether? 1.1 or CVS fix this already?
>
> I don't see a sample in the manual of just entering one username like
> that.
>
> **** Begin users file
>
> DEFAULT Auth-Type = SQL,
>                Simultaneous-Use = 1
>        Service-Type = Framed-User,
>                Framed-Protocol = PPP
>
> # I'm going to leave this in here in case
> # we/I need it later.
> #testme Password = "testing",
> #               Simultaneous-Use = 1
> #       Service-Type = Framed-User,
> #               Framed-Protocol = PPP
>
> # This user is a former sysadmin. His password for dialup
> # and e-mail are different. Since he's the only one,
> # He's going in here.
>
> username1  Password = "pass1",
>                Simultaneous-Use = 1
>        Service-Type = Framed-User,
>                Framed-Protocol = PPP
>
> *** End users file
>
>  
RFC 2183 says that that parameter should be 'User-Password'.   I do see 
that the 'Password' token is in the dict/compat file, so you may want to 
look at including that (although it seems to be included by default).

-Greg G