Re: authenticating ?????

Matthew S. Crocker (matthew@crocker.com)
Thu, 7 Nov 1996 12:57:51 -0500 (EST)

> > we use bsdi for os on radius server and when our customers log in it now
> > for what ever reaon takes aprox 2-3 min to get authenticated (tooo
> > long). We have aprox 5000 customers
> > and 22 portmasters. why is this and what can i do to speed this up, it
> > wasn't like this before.
>
> I know this is sacreligious, so please don't flame me, but you can:
>
> 1. Get a Macintosh.
> 2. Buy MacRADIUS.

Heh, yeah right ;)

How do you have your 5000 users stored? are they all in
/etc/raddb/users? My guess is the radius daemon is linear searching all
the 5000 users to authenicate. You should look into using a DBM for
username:password:authenication info.

-Matt