Re: ARAP Support and How To?

Hi Gerald,

Thanks sooo much for responding.

I don't know guile.. do you know if there are any open source or freely 
available *nix radius servers that support ARAP out of the box?

This is an exercise I'm doing  - it's not a production environment. I 
have to match up a server to an unknown client with only the error 
messages produced by a python cgi to go on for configuring the server.

I have access to the client via web form which executes the python cgi.

The form fields are Server, Username, Password, and Secret.

Here are the error messages that lead me to believe that it was using 
ARAP.

Thanks again,

Cian






cgi-bin/authen.py

   27 reply=srv.SendPacket(req)


   28 


   29 if reply['ARAP-Security-Data'][0] == randkey:


   30   print open('sentence').read()


   31 


reply = {6: ['\x00\x00\x00\x02'], 7: ['\x00\x00\x00\x01']}, randkey = 
'pVArioNL'

 /usr/local/lib/python2.2/site-packages/pyrad/packet.py in 
__getitem__(self={6: ['\x00\x00\x00\x02'], 7: ['\x00\x00\x00\x01']}, 
key='ARAP-Security-Data')

  156                         return self.data[key]


  157 


  158                 values=self.data[self._EncodeKey(key)]


  159                 attr=self.dict.attributes[key]


  160                 res=[]


values undefined, self = {6: ['\x00\x00\x00\x02'], 7: 
['\x00\x00\x00\x01']}, self.data = {6: ['\x00\x00\x00\x02'], 7: 
['\x00\x00\x00\x01']}, self._EncodeKey = <bound method 
AuthPacket._EncodeKey of {6: ['\x00\x00\x00\x02'], 7: 
['\x00\x00\x00\x01']}>, key = 'ARAP-Security-Data'

KeyError: 74
      __doc__ = 'Mapping key not found.'
      __getitem__ = <bound method KeyError.__getitem__ of 
<exceptions.KeyError instance at 0x8209dcc>>
      __init__ = <bound method KeyError.__init__ of 
<exceptions.KeyError instance at 0x8209dcc>>
      __module__ = 'exceptions'
      __str__ = <bound method KeyError.__str__ of <exceptions.KeyError 
instance at 0x8209dcc>>
      args = (74,)



On Nov 19, 2004, at 9:43 AM, Gerald wrote:

> On Thu, 18 Nov 2004, Cian Phillips wrote:
>
>> I set up GNU radius on a freeBSD box with some really simple
>
> Two good choices. :-)
>
>> enable the Apple Remote Access Protocol stuff. There are attribute
>> definitions in dict/standard but I have no idea how to use them.
>
> Yikes. A quick look at the ARAP documentation and it seems like it's
> not for the faint of heart. You may wind up writing more code than you
> anticipated to make gnu-radius support it. Just grepping through the
> source code and CVS logs I don't see where any ARAP code has been added
> to gnu-radius. The dictionary just has the attributes in it already.
>
>> I can connect both locally and remotely using radauth and I can see
>> the messages in the logs.. (they say authentication succeeded but I
>> guess the ARAP client is looking for a challenge response?
>
> Actually your config is giving you the false sense that you are 
> actually
> doing ARAP. More on that in a second.
>
>> I'm guessing I have to add some ARAP stuff to the clients file????
>
> I'd guess the ARAP support in gnu-radius stops at the entries in the
> dictionaries and that if it required code change it isn't supported
> yet. If you were fluent in guild you can write a module to handle the
> information you need to make it work, but I can't offer examples.
>
>> <feeling really dense>
>
> Don't. ARAP is an extension of RADIUS and therefore a little more
> complicated to set up. Add to that I don't think there is any code in
> gnu-radius that actually supports ARAP and it just won't work with
> gnu-radius.
>
>> DEFAULT Auth-Type = Accept,
>> 		Simultaneous-Use = 10
>> 	Service-Type = Framed-User,
>> 		Framed-Protocol = PPP
>
> Here is the part of your config misleading you. You've told gnu-radius
> to Accept anything. Any request that comes in with Service-Type
> of Framed-User &/or Framed-Protocol PPP will match this entry and
> gnu-radius will fire off an Access-Accept message. This isn't actually
> authenticating a user. This is also an extremely insecure setup since
> basically any request that comes in to this radius server will be
> allowed.
>
> The NAS is talking to RADIUS and RADIUS is firing off accept messages
> but what I've read of ARAP there is more to the process than just
> Accepting and I don't think the code is there to support the Dictionary
> entries.
>
> I also think you are the first to ask about ARAP (in gnu-radius at 
> least).
>
> Gerald
>
>