Re: (RADIATOR) False Rejects

2000-07-20 Thread Hugh Irvine
Hello Charles - On Thu, 20 Jul 2000, Charles Sprickman wrote: > Hi, > > Our adduser script periodically formats (removes certain GIDs/UIDs) then > copies and chowns master.passwd for radiator. So far, we've had no > problems with this until today. At exactly the time of file creation, > radia

Re: (RADIATOR) AddressAllocator SQL - "confirm" appears disabled

2000-07-20 Thread Orcon Network Coordinator, Mark Mackay
> As per my previous mail, I don't think what you are proposing is really what > you want to do. > Third - introducing an intermediate state of 1 causes a race condition which > will undoubtedly create duplicate addresses, as there is a timing window > between the Access-Accept and the Accounting

RE: (RADIATOR) False Rejects

2000-07-20 Thread Ingvar Berg (ERA)
> > BTW - SQL databases are *much* better for managing user populations. > And the next quantum leap in this particular area is called Directory, with an LDAP interface. :-) Ingvar === Archive at http://www.starport.net/~radiator/ Announcements on [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email '[EM

RE: (RADIATOR) Simultaneous-use in 2.15

2000-07-20 Thread Hugh Irvine
Hello William - Thanks for sending the log file. The log shows that the user is indeed being rejected by the first AuthBy clause, but your configuration file has an AuthByPolicy of ContinueUntilAccept, so it goes on to the next AuthBy clause which then accepts the user. Radiator is doing exactl

Re: (RADIATOR) AddressAllocator SQL - "confirm" appears disabled

2000-07-20 Thread Hugh Irvine
Hello Mark - On Thu, 20 Jul 2000, Orcon Network Coordinator, Mark Mackay wrote: > > As per my previous mail, I don't think what you are proposing is really what > > you want to do. > > > Third - introducing an intermediate state of 1 causes a race condition which > > will undoubtedly create dup

(RADIATOR) RewriteUsername & Simultaneous-Use problem

2000-07-20 Thread Nikos Aslanakis
We have a problem regarding simultaneous logins. One of our users did the following: Logged in once using his normal username, eg. "user" ..and then logged in successfuly using the same username with additional trailing spaces: "user". When radiator writes the accounting records to the SQL o

(RADIATOR) Re: Fwd: Re: radiator radius server

2000-07-20 Thread Deepak Shrestha
Hi Hugh, I have configured the Radiator Radius successfully in AIX4.3.1 but it is taking a lot of resources ( 80-90% of CPU by perl-radiator ). This causes Radiator to stop responding to "Start" accounting packets though it responds to the "Stop" accounting packets. I need to "kill -HUP radiusd.pi

(RADIATOR) Strange issues with unix-type machines?

2000-07-20 Thread -=X=-
Hello We finally have our Radiator radius server up and running and it seems to work well. I have noticed, however, errors like this in the logfile: INFO: Access rejected for : Check item Service-Type expression 'Framed-User' does not match '' in request I am assuming that is because we have t

RE: (RADIATOR) Simultaneous-use in 2.15

2000-07-20 Thread William Hernandez
Hugh, The AuthByPolicy of ContinueUntilAccept clause was in the radius.cfg file from early attempts at setting up the cfg file. I have removed it. We want to accomplish checking of simultaneous use across all of our NAS'S. All of our users have an UNIX login entry in /etc/passwd|shadow. Our use

(RADIATOR) thanks

2000-07-20 Thread Jeremy Gault
Hi, Thanks to everyone who offered help with the simultaneous use stuff. After throwing the question out to the general community, I decided to see if I could find anything else out while I waited on a response. I ran across the NasType setting. I changed it from "Hiper" to "TotalC

Re: (RADIATOR) False Rejects

2000-07-20 Thread Charles Sprickman
On Thu, 20 Jul 2000, Hugh Irvine wrote: > There must be a race condition between the modification time on the file > changing and the actual contents of the file being available. I think I might > add a line to your script to "touch" the file after the processing is > completed. This will ensure

Re: (RADIATOR) Simultaneous-Use Problems - IMPORTANT

2000-07-20 Thread David Lloyd
On Thu, 20 Jul 2000, Hugh Irvine wrote: > A better approach to maintaining session database coherency is to use > strict checking of the NAS. This is what the NasType parameter is used > for in the Client clauses (see section 6.4.5 in the Radiator 2.16.1 > reference manual). Note that there is a

Re: (RADIATOR) RewriteUsername & Simultaneous-Use problem

2000-07-20 Thread David Lloyd
On Thu, 20 Jul 2000, Nikos Aslanakis wrote: > We have a problem regarding simultaneous logins. One of our users did > the following: > > Logged in once using his normal username, eg. "user" ..and then logged > in successfuly using the same username with additional trailing > spaces: "user "(

Re: (RADIATOR) False Rejects

2000-07-20 Thread David Lloyd
On Thu, 20 Jul 2000, Charles Sprickman wrote: > What about locking? I was considering just holding a lock on the file > until I've finished writing it... Would that also accomplish the same > thing? As far as I'm aware, Radiator does *not* support locking at all. We had to modify ours to 'flo

Re: (RADIATOR) False Rejects

2000-07-20 Thread Hugh Irvine
Hello Dave - On Fri, 21 Jul 2000, David Lloyd wrote: > On Thu, 20 Jul 2000, Charles Sprickman wrote: > > > What about locking? I was considering just holding a lock on the file > > until I've finished writing it... Would that also accomplish the same > > thing? > > As far as I'm aware, Radia

Re: (RADIATOR) AddressAllocator SQL - "confirm" appears disabled

2000-07-20 Thread Hugh Irvine
Hello again Mark - Further to this post from yesterday, I was thinking some more about the discussions Mike and I had while doing this address allocation feature and what we decided was this: Because radius is based on UDP and because packets can and will go missing, there is no way to determine

Re: (RADIATOR) False Rejects

2000-07-20 Thread Hugh Irvine
Hello Charles - On Fri, 21 Jul 2000, Charles Sprickman wrote: > On Thu, 20 Jul 2000, Hugh Irvine wrote: > > > There must be a race condition between the modification time on the file > > changing and the actual contents of the file being available. I think I might > > add a line to your script

Re: (RADIATOR) Simultaneous-Use Problems - IMPORTANT

2000-07-20 Thread Hugh Irvine
Hello David - On Fri, 21 Jul 2000, David Lloyd wrote: > On Thu, 20 Jul 2000, Hugh Irvine wrote: > > > A better approach to maintaining session database coherency is to use > > strict checking of the NAS. This is what the NasType parameter is used > > for in the Client clauses (see section 6.4.5

IMPORTANT - Re: (RADIATOR) RewriteUsername & Simultaneous-Use problem

2000-07-20 Thread Hugh Irvine
Hello Nikos - Several similar questions have come up recently, and my response has always been this: why not set up a Handler clause to catch the illegal usernames and reject them out of hand? The list in the Handler below will match on any character other than "a-z", "A-Z", "0-9", "-", "_", "@"

Re: (RADIATOR) Strange issues with unix-type machines?

2000-07-20 Thread Hugh Irvine
Hello Dan - On Fri, 21 Jul 2000, -=X=- wrote: > Hello > > We finally have our Radiator radius server up and running and it seems to > work well. I have noticed, however, errors like this in the logfile: > > INFO: Access rejected for : Check item Service-Type expression > 'Framed-User' does not

Re: (RADIATOR) Strange issues with unix-type machines?

2000-07-20 Thread -=X=-
Thanks for the response Hugh! > The problem you have is due to the way you have configured your users file - > you must have those users (or a DEFAULT) with the Service-Type=Framed-User on > the first line of the definition - ie as a check item. Hmm, here is my DEFAULT: DEFAULT Auth-Type = Syst

Re: (RADIATOR) Strange issues with unix-type machines?

2000-07-20 Thread Hugh Irvine
Hi Dan - On Fri, 21 Jul 2000, -=X=- wrote: > Thanks for the response Hugh! > > > The problem you have is due to the way you have configured your users file - > > you must have those users (or a DEFAULT) with the Service-Type=Framed-User on > > the first line of the definition - ie as a check it

(RADIATOR) Re: Fwd: Re: radiator radius server

2000-07-20 Thread Hugh Irvine
Hello Deepak - On Fri, 21 Jul 2000, Deepak Shrestha wrote: > Hi Hugh, > I have configured the Radiator Radius successfully in AIX4.3.1 but it is > taking a lot of resources ( 80-90% of CPU by perl-radiator ). This causes > Radiator to stop responding to "Start" accounting packets though it > res

RE: (RADIATOR) Simultaneous-use in 2.15

2000-07-20 Thread Hugh Irvine
Hello William - What you are describing below can be accomplished very easily by using a Session Database. I have posted several responses to the list about this topic over the last couple of days. Have a look at those and get back to me if you have any other questions. Note that the session dat