Whatever software you use, you need to deal with some sort of escaping of user-supplied secrets because you can't predict what characters may be used. In FreeRADIUS, quote characters and spaces would be problematic in secrets; in radsecproxy, percents and spaces are.

We deal with the escaping in the script that generates our radsecproxy configuration. I've some python I could share when I get back to a real PC.

- Guy

Sent from my cell phone. Please excuse brevity and spelling.

On 12 Sep 2019 16:47, Christian Claveleira <Christian.Claveleira@renater.fr> wrote:

Fabian Mauchle wrote on 12/09/2019 15:54:
> Hi Christian,
>
> On 12.09.19, 15:34, "radsecproxy on behalf of Christian Claveleira" <radsecproxy-bounces@lists.nordu.net on behalf of Christian.Claveleira@renater.fr> wrote:
>      it seems the content of the secret string is interpreted when it contains a "%" :
>
>      when a client (or server) declaration contains
>      secret   fht8CD%E7am
>
>      it is interpreted as
>      getgenericconfig: block client xxxx.yyyyy: secret = fht8CDçam
>
>      One can see "%E7" is translated as the "ç" character.
>
> This case is mentioned in the manpage radsecproxy.conf(5):
> If you want to write a % and not use this decoding, you may of course write % in hex; i.e., %25.
>
> Regards,
> Fabian
>
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Hi Fabian,

Sorry for not have seen that but we don't choose the secrets used : the clients/servers administrators choose their secret which
are put in configuration files for FreeRadius (in production) and radsecproxy (for evaluation). It's not expected to have to
translate the content of the secret string :-\.

Regards,
Christian