On Mon, 23 Feb 2004, Edmund C. Greene wrote: > Greetings, > > I am looking at starting to use MAC authentication and I was wondering > if there was a way to dynamically add clients without restarting the > server every time. Can client entries be put into an SQL database or > into LDAP so that they are read dynamically instead of using the > clients.conf file?
Currently clients are not stored in LDAP or SQL databases only in the clients.conf file. Patches are welcome though. Even if they were stored in SQL i don't think they would be dynamic the way you expect them to be. The server would just load the clients list from the LDAP/SQL database on startup instead of clients.conf (or use both), it wouldn't query the database on each incoming request. That's a waste of time and a very nice DoS. Your best bet is either to provide a relatively small patch to use sql for client storage or create a script that will add entries to the clients.conf file and then restart (kill -HUP the server). > > Thanks for your attention. > > Edmund C. Greene > Systems Integrator > Boston College > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > - > List info/subscribe/unsubscribe? See http://www.freeradius.org/list/users.html > -- Kostas Kalevras Network Operations Center [EMAIL PROTECTED] National Technical University of Athens, Greece Work Phone: +30 210 7721861 'Go back to the shadow' Gandalf - List info/subscribe/unsubscribe? See http://www.freeradius.org/list/users.html
