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List:       freeradius-users
Subject:    Re: Quick question.
From:       "Alan DeKok" <aland () ox ! org>
Date:       2002-07-18 20:20:45
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Justin Wheeler <freeradius@datademons.com> wrote:
> I became the admin for a local ISP about 8 months ago.  It's running
> FreeRADIUS 0.2 (old, I know.) -- now, this ISP has approx 10k users.  Of
> those, 6k are MD5 passwords, and the rest are DES.  Now, FreeRADIUS seems
> to not have a problem with this for the most part ... but every week or
> so, our phone lines get flooded with people who can no longer log on, I
> restart radius, and all is well again.  Now, the *only* accounts the stop
> working when this happens, are ones with DES passwords.  MD5 continues to
> work just fine.

  If it's 0.2, I have *no* idea.  That's so old, it's scary.

> Now, I am upgrading to 0.6 tonight.  The question I have, is can I can
> expect this to fix the problem, or should I be looking elsewhere?

  I've never heard of that before, so I hope 0.6 should fix it.

  But test 0.6 first, before making it live.  You'll never know what
surprises you run into.

> FreeRADIUS is configured to cache the passwd and shadow files, if that
> makes any difference.

  It shouldn't...

  Alan DeKok.


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