Hi Folks! I have a working freeRadius with Postgresql database behind it, and looking at developing some additional functionality for a public access wireless service requested by one of our customers.
The deal is that they want to allow limited access (by time/download etc) to first-time visitors for free, and then direct them to a purchase page once they have used up that limit. What I'm thinking is to point the authorize_check_query to a pgSQL function that looks for the MAC address in a special table, and if it doesn't exist, to create a new user linked to the client MAC (Our Access Points all support MAC-Auth when the wireless client connects to the network). I'm expecting that if I can create a new user in the authorize_check_query and have it return auth-success, then the authorize_reply_query will return the relevant data from what is created by the former.... I hope that makes some kind of sense! :-} So my basic question is: Does "authorize_check_query" complete fully before starting the call to "authorize_reply_query"? If they happen at the same time, then I expect that 'authorize_reply_query' may execute before I get a chance to create the relevant records for the 'guest' user... I know I can just go ahead and find out my answer by 'empirical method', but I figure that just because it seems to work every time, there is no definite guarantee that it will work *every* time unless I can be certain that these functions execute in sequence :-} Any comments are gratefully received! :-) Thanks, regards, Mike Everest. - List info/subscribe/unsubscribe? See http://www.freeradius.org/list/users.html
