Request: add missing standard RADIUS attribute types

Jouni Malinen j at w1.fi
Sat Mar 24 02:20:27 PDT 2018


On Sun, Mar 11, 2018 at 04:24:58PM +0100, Alejandro Pérez Méndez wrote:
> >>I'd like to request the addition of four RADIUS attribute types, that are
> >>missing in the radius/radius.h file. They are defined in section 7.4 of RFC
> >>7055. They would be:
> >>
> >>RADIUS_ATTR_GSS_ACCEPTOR_SERVICE_NAME = 164
> >>RADIUS_ATTR_GSS_ACCEPTOR_HOST_NAME = 165
> >>RADIUS_ATTR_GSS_ACCEPTOR_SERVICE_SPECIFICS = 166
> >>RADIUS_ATTR_GSS_ACCEPTOR_REALM_NAME = 167
> >Could you please clarify what exactly you are asking for here? Support
> >for GSS-API in general? Just defining those attribute type values in
> >radius.h? Printing these in some debug messages? Or something else?

> Sorry I wasn't clear enough in my previous email. All I'd like is having
> those definitions added to radius.h file.
> libeap is used by the Moonshot software (an implementation of the GSS EAP
> mechanism - RFC 7055), but those definitions are missing.
> 
> If you prefer that, I can create a patch (as others do) with the desired
> modification.

A contributed patch would be the best way of getting something like this
added. The commit message should describe the need, since simply adding
defined values without any obvious use within hostap.git does not make
it clear that there is reason for applying the change.

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Jouni Malinen                                            PGP id EFC895FA



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