Issue 196: User-Name Attribute

["Bernard Aboba" <[e-mail]>]

Issue 196: User-Name Attribute
Submitter names: Cristina Ruiz
Submitter email address: [e-mail]
Date first submitted: June 2, 2006
Reference: http://ops.ietf.org/lists/radiusext/2006/msg00527.html
Document: DIGEST-09
Comment type: 'T'echnical
Priority: S
Section: 5, 6
Rationale/Explanation of issue:

The User-Name attribute is mandatory in the RADIUS Access Request as 
indicated in the table of attributes (Section 5). But in the initial HTTP 
GET method, the user-name is not received, and in the example (Section 6) 
nothing is sent in the User-name attribute in the B->C comunication. What 
does the RADIUS client include in the User-Name attribute in this case? And 
what shall the RADIUS Server do when this dummy user-name is received?

I think the "client nonce generation mode" removed from draft 07 was usefull 
to avoid inventing a user name in  this HTTP case (where the nonce 
generation does not depend on the user and this is not received in the 
initial  request).  Why was it removed?



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