Radius stuff (fwd)

MegaZone (megazone@livingston.com)
Sun, 6 Apr 1997 23:51:30 -0700 (PDT)

Once upon a time Jacob H. Suter shaped the electrons to say...
>Basically what I am looking at is that right now my radius records are
>about 7 lines of ultra-redundant data per customer. After reading the
>Radius guide PDF I got no clue on how to make it so its only one line per

You can't -unless you hack the source.

>radius user, and use generic info unless I specify otherwise in my user

Ditto.

>record. Right now all of my customers are dynamic single IP users, so 98%
>of my radius file is pure fluff. Its also slow to parse and is an overall
>pain when adding new users.

Use DBM to speed it up.

>I see the "DEFAULT" entry thing, but that apparently always uses the unix
>password file, which I'd like to avoid if possible.

Yes, that is how DEFAULT users.

>So is there a way around this?

Not unless you want to edit the source - you're application is abnormal.

-MZ

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