Hello Colin -
On Thu, 13 Apr 2000, colinc wrote:
> Hi
>
> I have been browsing through the archives and the manual regarding
> information on setting up groups, it seems to be more confusing to me
> than it should.
>
> However, it seems to me that i would need to setup the groups
> authentication in the users file. At the current moment i don't believe
> we are using the user file for authentication, this is done from our
> passwd file using <AuthBy Unix>. Where exactly do we specify which group
> a user belongs to, would this be the groups file?
>
You will need to do several things -
1. create your groups
2. set up cascaded AuthBy's to check both passwords and groups
3. configure whatever specific check and reply attributes you need
corresponding to the group membership
Something like this:
# configuration to check passwords and groups
<AuthBy UNIX>
Identifier CheckUNIX
Filename ....
GroupFilename ....
</AuthBy>
<Realm .....>
<AuthBy FILE>
Filename %D/default-users
</AuthBy>
</Realm>
Then in the users file:
# file %D/default-users
# specify additional check items and appropriate reply items as required
DEFAULT Auth-Type = CheckUNIX, Group = plan1
......
DEFAULT Auth-Type = CheckUNIX, Group = plan2
.....
DEFAULT Auth-Type = CheckUNIX, Group = plan3
.....
Have a look at section 6.21 in the Radiator 2.15 reference manual.
> We want to create groups of users that correspond to our internet plans,
>
> eg 30 hr/month, unlimited hrs.
>
You might also want to consider an SQL database for doing more
sophisticated accounting, etc., or you might even look at one of the commercial
ISP billing systems that do these sorts of things "out-of-the-box".
hth
Hugh
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