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RADIUS

by Jonathan Hassell
October 2002
Intermediate to advanced
206 pages
8h 30m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Name

Access-Challenge

Synopsis

Packet Type

Response

Code

11

Identifier

Identical to Access-Request

Length

Header length plus all additional attribute data

Authenticator

Response

Attribute Data

0 or more

If a server receives conflicting information from a user, requires more information, or simply wishes to decrease the risk of a fraudulent authentication, it can issue an Access-Challenge packet to the client. The client, upon receipt of the Access-Challenge packet, must then issue a new Access-Request with the appropriate information included.

It should be noted that some clients don’t support the challenge/response process like this; in that case, the client treats the Access-Challenge packet as an Access-Reject packet. Some clients, however, do support challenging, and at that point a message can be given to the user at the client requesting the additional authentication information—it’s not necessary in that situation to set off another round of request/response packets.

Much like the Access-Reject packet, there are only two standard attributes that can be included in an Access-Challenge packet: the State and Reply-Message attributes. Any necessary vendor-specific attributes can be included as well. The Reply-Message attribute can be included in the packet multiple times, but the State attribute is limited to a single instance. The State attribute is copied unchanged into the Access-Request that is returned to the challenging server.

The Access-Challenge ...

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