Guys, Thanks for the tips on doing this. I am putting together some notes/details on the process and will get back if I have any other questions.
-john At 11:12 PM +0200 1/11/12, Heikki Vatiainen wrote: >On 01/11/2012 09:46 PM, John Goubeaux wrote: > >> I have a basic "best practices" question on how I might best run a >> separate "development" ver of radiator for testing without impacting >> a production instance on my network. > >> Can I, and should I do this on the same host running the production >> radiusd ? Meaning can I safely run another instance that points to >> fresh config file and have it run on an alternate port ? > >Yes, this is possible. Just see that log and pid file names etc. do not >overlap. Read-only files, such as dictionary, can of course be shared. >With careful configuration you should not have problems. > >One common case is to have a separate authentication and accounting >instance. So besides testing, multiple instances can be run for separate >functionality and/or load balancing purposes too. > >> I'd like to >> do some testing for a development wireless domain and minimize the >> impact on any current production use of radiator and would prefer not >> to have to do it on another box IF I can do so with no impact to >> production use. > >I see no problem doing this. One option might be to run the instances >under different uids and groups. If the test instance tries to e.g., >write to wrong log file, the file permissions should stop it causing any >actual harm. > >Thanks! >Heikki > >-- >Heikki Vatiainen <h...@open.com.au> > >Radiator: the most portable, flexible and configurable RADIUS server >anywhere. SQL, proxy, DBM, files, LDAP, NIS+, password, NT, Emerald, >Platypus, Freeside, TACACS+, PAM, external, Active Directory, EAP, TLS, >TTLS, PEAP, TNC, WiMAX, RSA, Vasco, Yubikey, MOTP, HOTP, TOTP, >DIAMETER etc. Full source on Unix, Windows, MacOSX, Solaris, VMS, >NetWare etc. -- John Goubeaux Systems Administrator Gevirtz Graduate School of Education UC Santa Barbara Education 4203C 805 893-8190 _______________________________________________ radiator mailing list radiator@open.com.au http://www.open.com.au/mailman/listinfo/radiator
