Re: (PM) Double Login
Miquel van Smoorenburg (list-portmaster-users@news.cistron.nl)
21 Nov 1997 15:12:20 +0100
In article <Pine.BSI.3.95.971120220146.26791J-100000@maslow.cia-g.com>,
Stephen Fisher <lithium@cia-g.com> wrote:
>
>On Thu, 20 Nov 1997, James D. Butt wrote:
>
>> > Cistron-radiusd can do what you want in a reliable way
>> > (OOB channel using SNMP to check).
>>
>> How long does this take (the auth process)?
>>
>> It seems to me that logging in would take a long time? (It is not really
>> that fast when I use snmpget ect to grab info from the portmaster) I
>> would assume that it looks at last login records and only checks that
>> portmaster and that port?
>
>As I understand it, the best method is to only do a check to make sure the
>user is still logged in if it is in a users database on the server before
>denying them access. Otherwise just let them in.
Yes, that's exactly what it does. You do get a double login occasionally
(once a week or less maybe), but this system always errs on the safe side..
Mike.
--
Miquel van | Cistron Internet Services -- Alphen aan den Rijn.
Smoorenburg, | mailto:info@cistron.nl http://www.cistron.nl/
miquels@cistron.nl | PTT's Het Net: Surfen in de gootsteen! <*>
--
The From: and Reply-To: addresses are internal mail2news gateway addresses.
Reply to the list or to miquels@cistron.nl (Miquel van Smoorenburg)
-
To unsubscribe, email 'majordomo@livingston.com' with
'unsubscribe portmaster-users' in the body of the message.