At 08:46 AM 12/9/2002 -0800, Miller, Kenneth L NWP wrote:
Good morning,No, it uses a users file in the same way as your old Ascend Radius server.
I am very new to Radus Server and especially new to freeradius. I have inherited a very old Ascend Radius Server that is running on a SUN box. I want to move this to Linux and run it under freeradius. The USERS file on the Sun box is just a flat text file, which contains the usernames, passwords, and attributes such as Framed-Protocol, Filter-ID, etc., but it appears that freeradius handles thing differently. If the username and passwords are not placed in the users file, then where are they put.
The "How the USERS file is processed" states "After the items of a request have been mangled by the "hints" and "huntgroups" files, the users file is processed."
What does this mean? Do I put the username and passwords in the "hints" file or what?
It has the additional files "hints" and "huntgroups" which *may* be used,
but are definitely not required in a basic config. In fact, if you aren't
using them, comment their contents out entirely.
You should be able to modify the Ascend "users" file to be used under
FreeRADIUS. Note that the syntax is slightly different under FreeRADIUS
and that some of the attribute names may be changed slightly.
IE: Framed-Address becomes Framed-IP-Address under FreeRADIUS.
If your Ascend file looks like:
someuser Password = "letmein"
Framed-Address = 255.255.255.254
Framed-Netmask = 255.255.255.255
...
You could convert it to FreeRADIUS syntax:
someuser Auth-Type := LOCAL, User-Password == "letmein"
Framed-IP-Address = 255.255.255.254
Framed-IP-Netmask = 255.255.255.255
....
( note the 'operators'; :=, ==, =; have different meanings )!
Hope this helps,
-Chris
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