RE: Potential work items

["Nelson, David" <dnelson@enterasys.com>]

Alan DeKok writes...

>   I've always seen this as a problem in the RFC's.  Attributes like
> CHAP-Challenge, or EAP-Message should not be "string" attributes, in
> the same way that User-Password is a "string" attribute.  In the
> RADIUS server I'm working on, we're using type "octets", which means
> "undistinguished data", versus "printable string".

Well, without actually introducing a new data type, you're allowed to
sub-specify the allowable character set for string types in the textual
descriptions of attributes.

-- Dave



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