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To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, October 16, 2001 7:59 PM
Subject: Re: Cut off session that reach the limit


> "Carlos Lerma" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I would like to know how I can can cut off the user session that reach
> > the credit limit (minutes) for a prepaid services.
>
>   You don't want to do that.  It's a common problem that people have
> in misunderstanding RADIUS and authentication.
>
> > I know that the radius protocol can handle this issue...
>
>   Yes, but NOT the way you're thinking.
>
>   Why would you let a user in, only to discover later that you should
> kick him off?  That's a complete waste of time.
>
>   What you want to do is to either deny them completely IF they've
> used up their credit limit, OR to tell the NAS to kick them off once
> they've used up their credit limit.
>
>   See 'raddb/radiusd.conf'.  Look for the 'counter' section.
but can I make rlm_counter to lock the given account when the account reach
its limit (not to reset the counter)?
>
>   Alan DeKok.



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