> On 4 Oct 2017, at 14:00, Heikki Vatiainen <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> On 3.10.2017 9.57, Johan Wassberg wrote:
> 
>> From the documentation about ClientListLDAP [0]:
>> ```
>> [...]
>> You can have some client details in your Radiator configuration file and
>> some in <ClientListLDAP> although this can be confusing to future
>> administrators.
>> [...]
>> ```
> 
> Hmm, probably should be 'clients' instead of 'client details'.
> 
> I'd say the confusion may arise from loading clients from SQL, LDAP and/or 
> configuration file and then trying to figure out from where they come from 
> and, for example, if there are same clients from multiple sources, what are 
> the client settings then. See below for more. In short: no merging happens. 
> Identically named clients replace the existing clients.
> 
>> We are trying to clean up our configuration by moving the secrets to
>> LDAP and it works for most clients just fine. But the some parts of the
>> configurations requires "Identifiers" on specific clients, e.g:
>> ```
>> <Client r1.example.com>
>>     Identifier se-root
>> </Client>
>> ```
> 
> You can pull Identifier from LDAP too. See ClientAttrDef and
>   ClientAttrDef oscRadiusIdentifier,Identifier
> 
> Maybe this solves the problem?

Probably yes. Just need to modify our LDAP schema first…

> 
>> So I did as the documention stated, mixed the configuration by adding
>> the secret to LDAP and the lines above in the configuration file. And I
>> think is works but I'm a bit scared by the error messages that now can
>> be found in the log:
>> ```
>> Tue Oct  3 08:12:35 2017: ERR: No Secret or TACACSPLUSKey defined
>> for Client r1.example.com in '/local/radiator/conf/radius.cfg'
>> ```
>> The following questions comes to mind:
>> 1. Is the error message a real error?
> 
> It comes from the example clause above where, after the clause has been fully 
> read, client activation notices that there's no secret. So it's a real error 
> since the client configuration did not have a secret.
> 
>> 2. If I have a secret configured in both LDAP and the config file,
>>    which secret will be used?
>> [0] https://www.open.com.au/radiator/ref/ClientListLDAP.html
> 
> The client from the last source configured in the configured file is the one 
> that is used. Information about previously loaded clients is not merged but 
> any existing client will be completely replaced.
> 
> If you have, for example,
> 
> <Client r1.example.com>
>    Identifier se-root
> </Client>
> 
> <ClientListLDAP>
>  ...
> </ClientList>
> 
> You will get a warning when the statically configured client is loaded. The 
> warning is about the missing secret.
> 
> If r1.example.com is also loaded from LDAP, it will replace r1.example.com 
> that was just loaded from the configuration file. Note: if name resolution 
> yields different result for r1.example.com for statically configured and LDAP 
> loaded client, then you can have entries from the both sources.
> 

Cool.
Thanks for the clarification!

--
jocar
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