NOTE: FortiNAC is now named FortiNAC-F. For post-9.4 articles, see FortiNAC-F. FortiNAC is a zero-trust network access solution that provides users with enhanced visibility into the Internet of Things (IoT) devices on their enterprise networks.
This article describes why RADIUS secrets that use HTML characters must be saved via the CLI.
Unexpected behavior is observed when a RADIUS secret is entered with HTML characters such as the ampersand '&'.
Example Radius Secret: 'SuUA01&fTcLkyopnXQ'.
What gets saved: 'SuUA01&fTcLkyopnXQ'.
Logs on the devices expecting the correct secret will throw errors such as 'Invalid Authenticator' or 'Bad Secret', even when the user confirms the secret is the same on all devices.
