On Wed, 2006-22-02 at 07:34 +0100, Stefan Winter wrote: > Hi, > > > You don't have to have a User-Name in the request to use that file. If > > it isn't there and you need it for further processing you can add it. > > Well, no. That's exactly the point: the hints file is *skipped* if there is > no > User-Name in the request. > > Greetings, > > Stefan Winter The hints file was originally designed to classify users and determine what methods of connection were allowed, by using an uppercase character or other pattern. It provided a similar function to what groups are now used for, before groups were implemented. The letter or pattern could be removed before authentication if desired.
Examples : Uacct01 = UUCP user acct01 Pacct02 = PAP user acct02 Cacct03 = CHAP user acct03 etc. The Accounting-On is a status messages from the NAS indicating that no users are currently logged on and that accounting will start. The Accounting-Off is a status messages from the NAS indicating that all users logged in are being logged off and that accounting will stop. There is no relationship to any specific account, so hints is not supposed to be used. If you are using hints to do some other kind of processing, you are likely using it for something it was not intended for. If you are using an SQL backend for accounting the Accounting-On / Accounting-Off packets are handled by the sql configuration to mark all active as stopped for the NAS that sent the packet. - List info/subscribe/unsubscribe? See http://www.freeradius.org/list/users.html
