Re: patchinfo: 2169 Send authentication reject in case of a malformed user

Sergey Poznyakoff <[email protected]> Thu, 30 Oct 2003 00:37:08 +0200

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.gnu.radius.bugs
Organization	Farlep-Internet
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Maurice Makaay <[email protected]> wrote:

> 2169 Send authentication reject in case of a malformed user
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
[..]
> If there is a good reason for not sending back a reject, please let
> me know and I'll update the patch to make it configurable using the
> server configuration file.

Yes, there is. Very often a malformed username is due to some
NAS IOS problem, for example while using a certain buggy NAS
I've often observed the beginning of a PPP session in the User-Name
attribute. In these cases there is no use sending back the reply.
I guess it is better to make it configurable.

-Sergey