[Devel] radiusclient-ng error codes

[Bogdan-Andrei Iancu]

Hi Juha,

have you checked the same of freeradius client library? You now have the 
option to compile against it. The problem is there are no packages for 
it for debian - you need to compile it :(...

regards,
bogdan

Juha Heinanen wrote:
> i checked return codes in radiusclient-ng and at least in the version i
> had access (RELENG_0_5_1), it does a very bad job:
>
> * Function: rc_check_reply
>  *
>  * Purpose: verify items in returned packet.
>  *
>  * Returns:	OK_RC       -- upon success,
>  *		BADRESP_RC  -- if anything looks funny.
>
> i.e., radiusclient-ng returns BADRESP_RC both when authentication failed
> normally and when, for example, radius server response was somehow bogus.
>
> as result, opener has no chance to know if some error occurred or if
> username/password simply didn't match.
>
> i think this needs to be fixed.  is someone still maintaining
> radiusclient-ng or perhaps it is already fixed in a newer version?
>
> -- juha
>
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