Re: User-Password character

Sergey Poznyakoff <[email protected]> Fri, 19 Aug 2005 09:57:47 +0300
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gnu.radius.general
Organization Farlep-Internet
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hi Maurice!

Nice to hear you :)
 
>   username-chars  ".-_!@#$%^&\\/="
> 
> in your radius config file? The equal sign is normally not a password
> character which is accepted.

No, you have mixed it up with the user name. Passwords can contain
whatever characters one likes (except 0 of course).
 
> (like "password=thepassword", where "password=3$8d=!$= is confusing the 
> parser).

That's right. It should be password='3$8d=!$=' instead (besides,
exclamation sign is a special character in many shells and must be
either quoted or escaped).

Regards,
Sergey