On Mar 31, 2022, at 10:05 AM, Oleg Pekar <oleg.pekar.2...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> It looks like RADIUS RFC 2865, Section "5. Attributes" is ambiguous when it 
> talks about the attribute value size:
> 
> First it says: "The Value field is zero or more octets", then it provides 5 
> possible value data types none of which allows a zero length value. 

  Yeah.  :(  It's horrible.

> Section "5.26. Vendor-Specific" also says about the value of a 
> vendor-specific attribute "The String field is one or more octets".
> 
> Thus the RFC allows empty values for attributes in general but prohibits for 
> any declared types of the attributes. 

  Yes.

  RADIUS is weird and terrible.

  Alan DeKok.

_______________________________________________
Emu mailing list
Emu@ietf.org
https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/emu

Reply via email to