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Lecture 3.1: Handling Remote Access: RADIUS Motivation

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Giuseppe Bianchi<br />

<strong>Access</strong>-Reject<br />

<strong>Access</strong> Reject<br />

Two main reasons:<br />

Authentication failed<br />

1+ attributes in the request were not<br />

considered acceptable (authorization failed)<br />

Giuseppe Bianchi<br />

<strong>Access</strong>-Challenge<br />

<strong>Access</strong> Challenge<br />

Used whenever the server wants/needs the user to<br />

send a further response<br />

E.g. a challenge/response authentication mechanisms<br />

Not necessarily CHAP (see CHAP support later on)! Could be<br />

<strong>RADIUS</strong> support for GSM/UMTS authentication!<br />

E.g. prompting the user to enter a password<br />

Challenge typically contains<br />

One or more reply-message attributes<br />

» Which MAY be used in a very flexible manner<br />

May contain text to be prompted to the user<br />

May contain an explicit authentication challenge<br />

NAS collects response from the user and sends a NEW<br />

<strong>Access</strong>-Request<br />

New ID<br />

New User-Password - contains the user response (crypted)<br />

Based on this, server accepts or rejects or send<br />

another challenge<br />

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