Hi Charles -
On Sat, 16 Dec 2000, Charles Sprickman wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Any ideas on how to reliably check simultaneous-use when accepting IPass
> roaming users? I'm guessing the "ping" method would work well, but I
> noticed a note in the manual stating that radiator must be run as root to
> do this. Is that actually necessary since ping is a setuid program? Or
> is radiator running an internal ping routine?
>
> What are other folks using? IPass strongly suggests that you limit
> sim-use to one...
>
Radiator uses the internal Perl module (Net::ping from memory) and it must be
run as root to be able to do ICMP pings. The module can also do TCP or UDP
pings without being root, but I couldn't see how that would be very useful.
regards
Hugh
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