I can't possibly imagine that there can be any reason for not adding mac address as another user apart from being lazy.
Ivan Kalik Kalik Informatika ISP Dana 16/12/2008, "Leigh Martell" <[email protected]> piše: >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 >> > - List info/subscribe/unsubscribe? See http://www.freeradius.org/list/users.html
