[Serdev] auth_radius module problems in pre39

Maxim Sobolev sobomax at portaone.com
Sat Jul 12 10:40:29 UTC 2003


Jan Janak wrote:
> On 12-07 01:18, Maxim Sobolev wrote:
> 
>>Operating system is FreeBSD 4.8. Please let me know what else do you 
>>need for debugging.
> 
> 
>   And architecture ? ia32 ?

Yes.

>>> Do you mean that To or From domain name is compared to realm ? This
>>> comparison was introduced by Juha for multi-domain support. A request
>>> must have To or From (depending on request type) domain same as the
>>> digest realm value. The reason for this check is that a proxy can
>>> handle multiple domain concurrently, in that case it is good to check
>>> the domain and realm, otherwise users might use their credentials for
>>> realm A to get access to realm B even if they have no credentials for
>>> realm B.
>>
>>I see your point, but for single realm configurations can we provide a 
>>config option which will disable this check?
> 
> 
>   Yes, we can make it a configurable option, but is that really
>   necessary ? I mean, the realm is just a string that should be
>   displayed to the user and that the proxy uses to find the
>   corresponding credentials. 
> 
>   Before I make it a configurable option, what exactly do you need to
>   achieve that it is not possible with the check ?

It places strict restriction on what domain an UA can place into 
otherwise unimportant From/To header field, which can hurt in some cases.

-Maxim



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