HP-UX AAA Server A.07.01 Administrator's Guide

instructions or other messages to an Access-Accept data packet (reply items). These
A-V pair’s values will also appear in server session logs. The A-V pairs usually appear
as AttributeName=Value in the configuration files and AttributeName=:Type:Value in
the log files.
Figure C-2 Attribute-Value Pair Format
Table C-2 Attribute Value Pair Format Description
DescriptionData
8-bit value-pair code, listed in the dictionary fileattribute
8-bit integer from 2-255length
0 - 253 octet information item. (The data type of value is determined by the
data type associated with the attribute code.)
value
As shown in Figure C-2, the Access-Request contains a set of attribute-value pairs. The
A-V pairs typically placed in these requests are the User-Name and User-Password,
along with the NAS-IP-Address, NAS-Port, Service-Type, and Framed-Protocol A-V
pairs-Framed-Protocol being present only if the user is making a PPP or SLIP connection.
Only a few attributes, such as User-Password and CHAP-Password, are encrypted.
(For a full description of RADIUS attribute-value pairs, see Chapter 32: “Attribute-Value
Pairs” (page 400).
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