[Users] How to do RADIUS authentication with hashed password (MD5 or HA1)?

[Cheng Zhang]

Fortunately Philippe Sultan on freeradius-users list has a patch to
solve my problem.

Philippe's reply is attached below:
------ Forwarded Message
From: Philippe Sultan <philippe.sultan at gmail.com>
Reply-To: FreeRadius users mailing list <freeradius-users at lists.freeradius.org>
Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2005 09:50:35 +0200
To: FreeRadius users mailing list <freeradius-users at lists.freeradius.org>
Subject: Re: Question on FreeRADIUS digest authentication with SIP proxy

Hi, Chen.

There is ongoing discussion on this topic :

http://lists.freeradius.org/pipermail/freeradius-users/2005-October/047606.html

You might also want to check this, for information related to digest
authentication with RADIUS and LDAP :

http://www-rocq.inria.fr/who/Philippe.Sultan/Asterisk/asterisk_sip_external_authentication.html

Bye,

Philippe
------ End of Forwarded Message

I tested Philippe's patch and it works for me. :-)
For people using Gentoo, I created this enhancement bug (
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=109003) to help out a bit.

-- Cheng


On 10/12/05, Bogdan-Andrei Iancu <bogdan at voice-system.ro> wrote:
> Hi Cheng,
>
> I'm not a RADIUS expert, but AFAIK only textplain passwords are
> supported by RADIUS.
>
> regards,
> Bogdan