(ASCEND) Year 2000 problem with Ascend Radius

["Walter Reed" <walt@itrade.net>]

I was just looking through the Radius Configuration Guide (June 10, 1997 
copyright date) and found on page 9-67 some information that disturbed me.

Under Ascend-PW-Expiration which specifies the expiration date for a users 
password, it has a default value of 00/00/00. According to the doc, if a 
user logs in with the same or later date, they will get the pw-expired 
messsage. If you DO specify a date, you need to enter a four digit year 
which "must start with the number 19".

This implies that radius users will be locked out on Jan 1, 2000. 

HELLO!!!! Is someone TOTALLY braindead over there???? I sure as HELL hope 
that this is a typo, or that the software has been changed to fix this. 
There is no excuse for any software written in the past 5 years to have a 
year 2000 problem IMHO.



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