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Created attachment 691752 [details]
Patch to skip unrecognised directives when parsing radius file

If ppp is configured to use the radius plugin for authentication:

...
plugin radius.so
radius-config-file /etc/radiusclient-ng/radiusclient.conf
...

and radiusclient.conf contains 'bindaddr *' (as it does in radiusclient-ng-0.5.6-8.fc18.i686.rpm), then: authentication fails with these log messages:

> Nov 23 10:46:11 vucc2 pppd[1171]: /etc/radiusclient-ng/radiusclient.conf: line 75: unrecognized
> keyword: bindaddr
> Nov 23 10:46:11 vucc2 pppd[1171]: RADIUS: Can't read config file
> /etc/radiusclient-ng/radiusclient.conf 

The problem is that the config file parser in the radius plugin of pppd is too strict. Instead of ignoring configuration directives that it does not recognise, and does not care about, it stops parsing the file, and returns an error, and remains itself unconfigured.

Patch attached.

Patch was long ago submitted to linux-ppp mailing list, but that list appears to be unmonitored by the ppp maintainers.

http://marc.info/?l=linux-ppp&m=134636974704703

This is already fixed in fedora, fix maybe included in some future maintenance release of RHEL6.

This request was evaluated by Red Hat Product Management for
inclusion in the current release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
Because the affected component is not scheduled to be updated
in the current release, Red Hat is unable to address this
request at this time.

Red Hat invites you to ask your support representative to
propose this request, if appropriate, in the next release of
Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

http://pkgs.devel.redhat.com/cgit/rpms/ppp/commit/?h=rhel-6.7&id=d911db69df67842eba1dcca3f60d6624def29da6 -> MODIFIED

Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2015-0685.html