I completely agree with you! I am still curious to why adding a user is not an option though. Hopefully we will be "enlightened" as to why it is not an option.
2008/12/15 <[email protected]> > To be fair, there probably is a way to create an unlang hack (are we > going to advocate unlang auth now) that can tie up mac address from the > user entry with the one in the mac auth request (regexp check if > username is mac address; if it is see if there is such mac address in > the database and force Auth-Type Accept; there was some mention of the > password, but that can be sorted as well) without breaking everything > else on the server. > > But why? If you can create user entry and add mac address as an attribute > value it requires minimal effort on user admin side to create an entry > with mac address as username value at the same time. A simple additional > insert. Even if it is a closed code solution that you can't change, you > can always make two entries - one for the user as username and one with > mac address as username. > > Be honest, if your user admin application can't do what you want, should > you: > > - hack your radius server? > > - hack your user admin application? > > It is credit to the quality and flexibility of Freeradius that messing > with the radius server comes up as an option at all. > > Ivan Kalik > Kalik Informatika ISP > > Dana 15/12/2008, "Leigh Martell" <[email protected]> piše: > > >Well thats not entirely true; you can create an association table(if thats > >the right term) which has id,username, mac and then edit your query with > >some joins and additional magic...I would not suggest this but it is > >possible just very messy. I would highly recommend doing this the > >traditional way...at least if you value your sanity ;-). > > > >-- > >Leigh > > > >On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 4:22 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > > > >> >In my case I can't look for MAC in Username field and I have to look > for > >> >that mac in Value field. Hope that have a way to make this happens. > >> > > >> > >> You don't seem to get the problem. You have set up your AP to do mac > >> authentication. When you do that, mac address is sent in the username > >> filed. If you don't want that, don't set your AP to do mac auth. Set > >> it to do user authentication. When you are doung user auth, mac address > >> should appear as Calling-Station-Id (should). > >> > >> There is *nothing* you can do in freeradius that will make your AP do > >> this. You have to configure the AP to do that. > >> > >> Ivan Kalik > >> Kalik Informatika ISP > >> > >> - > >> List info/subscribe/unsubscribe? See > >> http://www.freeradius.org/list/users.html > >> > > > > > > - > List info/subscribe/unsubscribe? See > http://www.freeradius.org/list/users.html >
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