You mean to say that,

/usr/local/etc/raddb/users file has to be stored in UTF-8 encoded format,
right?
then and then RADIUS server can compare UTF-8 with another UTF-8 encoded
stuff?


On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 3:51 PM, Alan DeKok <al...@deployingradius.com>wrote:

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> karnik jain wrote:
> > I am having one question regarding UTF-8 handling of RADIUS server.
> > As Per our talk you told me that whatever the module which required to
> use
> > mulilingual characters that is required to do UTF-8 encoding decoding
> > stuff..
>
>  I don't think I said that.
>
> > But my doubt lies here,
> >
> > When RADIUS server recieves request containing
> > the username of multilingual characters then without decoding UTF-8,
> > how can RADIUS server compare it with the stored username's password
> > inside the its own file named *"/usr/local/etc/raddb/users"* ?
>
>  The RFCs require that the User-Name (and all other printable strings)
> within RADIUS are UTF-8.
>
>  Alan DeKok.
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