Wireshark · Ethereal-dev: [Ethereal-dev] RADIUS User Password

[Dave Wapstra <dave@xxxxxxxxx>]

All,

The User-Password attribute in a RADIUS packet is normally encrypted. 
The RADIUS dissector has defined the User Password attribute as a 
RADIUS_STRING. This should be a BINSTRING imho. GTK chokes on this when 
trying to display the user password contents.

I have tried to build ethereal on win32 (cygwin) to verify the result of 
this change, however I got stuck at the last step, linking to 
ethereal.exe... I'll post a new message about that.

--- packet-radius.c-old Mon Feb  9 03:18:31 2004
+++ packet-radius.c     Sat Mar 20 15:10:50 2004
@@ -483,7 +483,7 @@
static const radius_attr_info radius_attrib[] =
{
  {1,  RADIUS_STRING,          "User Name", NULL},
-  {2,  RADIUS_STRING,          "User Password", NULL},
+  {2,  RADIUS_BINSTRING,       "User Password", NULL},
  {3,  RADIUS_BINSTRING,       "CHAP Password", NULL},
  {4,  RADIUS_IP_ADDRESS,      "NAS IP Address", NULL},
  {5,  RADIUS_INTEGER4,        "NAS Port", NULL},


Regards,
Dave