[Help-gnu-radius] Re: Issues with radius and authenticating.

[Sergey Poznyakoff]

Mendoza, Carlos <address@hidden> wrote:

>    We have set up two Linux servers running radius and have been working
> fine with authenticating users until now. It seems that users which have
> an expiration date set within the password field  (using NIS)
> continually fail as radius cannot authenticate them properly and prompts
> a failure message. The following is an example of a user which has the
> password field  set to expire: sejol:e9G8krenzftg2,A.4Q:24044:1:joe
> Laxamana. As you can see there is a comma (,) within the passwd field
> and we would like tot know if there is a way to get around this. 

No, I guess there is not. Radius expects the second field of /etc/passwd
file to be a valid hash of the user's password. Adding any surplus characters
there invalidates the hash.

Regards,
Sergey