Issue with RADIUS authentication when secret key consists of space character

[asha-behera]

Hi,

Issue is seen AAA authentication with RADIUS authentication if the secret-key consists of special characters .

Below issues are seen while testing:

1. RADIUS authentication with a secret-key consisting of space(" ") character is not supported
   There is no restriction from FreeRadius server side and works with all special characters with other NOS

root@sonic# config radius add a.b.c.d -k "secret key"

Is there a way to allow all special characters including above exceptions for RADIUS authentication? Is there any patch available for this issue ?
Any help in this regard is appreciated.

[alandekok]

We're happy to accept a patch which fixes this. My $0.02 is to add string parsing, based on single quoted strings like 'foo bar'. It's likely not difficult.