While using alpha numeric shared secret key for radious authentication enter user authentication failed

[amitmarathe]

Hi,

I am using shared secrect key as for example cisco123cisco or cisco@123c when i enter such key in radius configuratio  and on acs server user is not able to log in to the switch and shows authentication fail in acs failed report. But when I enter cisco123 then its start working. Current version of acs solution engine is 4.1.23. Please help to resolve this issue. This seems to be abnormal behaviour. If any wirk around or an upgrade is requred pl update. Thanks in adv.

Amit Marathe.

Wipro Infotech.

[Jatin Katyal]

Amit:

ACS works with special character in shared sceret key.

Could you please delete the AAA client from the network configuration and re-add it using shared secert key cisco@123 and try again.

Few Facts:

Key—The shared secret of the AAA server. Maximum length for AAA server keys is 32 characters.

For correct operation, the key must be identical on the remote AAA server and ACS. Keys are case sensitive. Because shared secrets are not synchronized, you could easily to make mistakes when entering them on remote AAA servers and ACS. If the shared secret does not match, ACS discards all packets from the remote AAA server.

You may refer ACS doc:

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/partner/docs/net_mgmt/cisco_secure_access_control_server_for_windows/4.1/user/NetCfg.html#wp342517

HTH

Regards,

JK

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