On Tue, Jun 30, 2020, 16:46 Nick Couchman <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Tue, Jun 30, 2020 at 18:01 dynz <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Great release by the way!
>>
>> I'm using RADIUS and MySQL for authentication, with MySQL holding
>> connections and groups.
>> If I use
>> mysql-auto-create-accounts: true
>> can I define a Group in MySQL with a certain name so that the auto-created
>> users will automatically be defined as members of that Group? If so, what
>> is
>> the that certain Group name.
>>
>
> No, there is no way to accomplish that with the auto creation process.
> I’ve thought in the past about some way to assign either default
> permissions or membership to new users, or some way to grant permissions to
> all authenticated users.  However, another part of me says that those
> methods are just work-arounds for proper group and permissions management -
> a big part of which it’s making sure that all of the extensions support
> some method of providing group membership.
>
> I’m interested to hear what others think.
>

Is there a standard way within RADIUS to define the group memberships of a
user?

If so, then perhaps the solution here is to pull that information when
configured to do so, similar to the group support within SAML.

- Mike

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