Security issue?

2003-06-13 Thread bens
Some time ago, I submitted the below security issue, and I wanted to know when the next release was due that (hopefully) fixed the issue(!?!?) -Ben > If I know a valid password for any > account, I can get in with a username of "*", and the valid password. > > Passwords

Re: Security issue; non case sensitivity in MySql

2003-02-10 Thread Robert Canary
Well I changed the sql query to be case sensitive. That has stop the problem, however, I can't find anything in the portslave config to cause it to drop the "R". I am moving this thread to the portslave list. Thanks for everyones input. Alan DeKok wrote: > > Robert Canary <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> w

Re: Security issue; non case sensitivity in MySql

2003-02-10 Thread Jason Haar
On Mon, Feb 10, 2003 at 10:19:22AM -0600, Robert Canary wrote: > When mysql is queried for that password aginst that username (regardless > of case) it returns a match because MySql isn't case sensitive. Thats > something which should be boldly noted in the dos. Not necessarily. "MySql isn't case

Re: [Portslave-users] Security issue; non case sensitivity in MySql

2003-02-10 Thread Russell Coker
On Sun, 9 Feb 2003 19:55, Robert Canary wrote: > Let say I have a username of "rcanary". The account is created on the > radius (MySql DB) as UserName=rcanary > > Now lets say I try to dialin (using portslave here in this case). I > mistype the username as *R*canary instead of *r*canary. > The RA

Re: Security issue; non case sensitivity in MySql

2003-02-10 Thread Alan DeKok
Robert Canary <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Now here is the odd thing I noticed. PPPD logs the the user as > "Rcanary" as being logged on, However, utmps and priveldges the user as > "canary". Then either PPPd or the RADIUS server is stripping off the leading 'R'. The server doesn't do it unl

Re: Security issue; non case sensitivity in MySql

2003-02-10 Thread Robert Canary
When mysql is queried for that password aginst that username (regardless of case) it returns a match because MySql isn't case sensitive. Thats something which should be boldly noted in the dos. Now here is the odd thing I noticed. PPPD logs the the user as "Rcanary" as being logged on, However,

Re: Security issue; non case sensitivity in MySql

2003-02-10 Thread Alan DeKok
Robert Canary <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Now lets say I try to dialin (using portslave here in this case). I > mistype the username as *R*canary instead of *r*canary. > The RAS is case sensitive. However, radius is allowing the Rcanary and > rcanary. So run the server in debugging mode, to s

Re: [Portslave-users] Security issue; non case sensitivity in MySql

2003-02-10 Thread Nicholas Tretyachenko
Hello Robert, Sunday, February 9, 2003, 9:55:20 PM, you wrote: RC> Let say I have a username of "rcanary". The account is created on the RC> radius (MySql DB) as UserName=rcanary RC> Now lets say I try to dialin (using portslave here in this case). I RC> mistype the username as *R*canary inste

Security issue; non case sensitivity in MySql

2003-02-09 Thread Robert Canary
Let say I have a username of "rcanary". The account is created on the radius (MySql DB) as UserName=rcanary Now lets say I try to dialin (using portslave here in this case). I mistype the username as *R*canary instead of *r*canary. The RAS is case sensitive. However, radius is allowing the Rcan