Re: Stopping Multiple User Login (fwd)
Dale E. Reed Jr. (daler@iea.com)
Wed, 20 Aug 1997 07:04:46 -0700
Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote:
>
> >Once upon a time Vijay V shaped the electrons to say...
> >>I want to allow only one session per username ! How to do this ?
> >>We are using Cisco AS5100/5200., on Solaris 2.5.1
> >
> >RADIUS does not allow for this, at the protocol level.
> >
> >We will be implementing a control in our next generation server, but I
> >don't think Ciscos have the needed client side SNMP values.
>
> I'm curious - why didn't you just implement this using radius. I mean,
> building a small radius _server_ into the portmaster isn't that hard -the
> radius protocol is almost bidirectional anyway!
Mainly because everyone is going to say that RADIUS isn't a management
protocol. Ascend as a pseudo server in thier MAX line and it can do
some pretty cool things (check session limits w/out disconnect,
logoff users, etc). I'd love to see this kind of functionlity in
a server on Livingston products.
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Dale E. Reed Jr. (daler@iea.com)
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