On Mon, 2004-09-13 at 09:16, Mike Markowski wrote: > On Mon 13-Sep-04 at 859 EDT, Kaczmarek, Thaddeus wrote: > > On Mon, 2004-09-13 at 08:55, Mike Markowski wrote: > > > For a very open wireless network, we'd like to allow everyone > > > to connect unless we know the MAC is a bad guy. That is, if > > > the MAC address is *in* the postgres db, don't authenticate. If > > > it's not in the db, authenticate. > > > > > > Can anyone think of a way to do this, or will I need to > > > tweak the code? > > > > > > Thanks! > > > Mike > > > > Not for nothing, but would it not be much easier to only authenticate > > trusted macs? I suspect the table would be much smaller as well. > > Thanks, Ted, for your thoughts, but it so happens that > just the opposite is the case in this instance. I won't > bore the list with the details, but there will be many > users over time, and a few will inevitably be discovered > to be hacked machines spamming the world, sharing copyrighted > material, etc., and must be disabled till the machines are > cleaned. Those are the only guys we care about. Anyone > else in range gets to connect. > > I'm sure a code tweak is simple for this, but I hate to have to > do that on each and every new freeradius release if there's a > better way. > > Mike > > -
Very interested in how this unfolds, I am definitely going to learn something :-) Ted DISCLAIMER This e-mail, and any attachments thereto, is intended only for use by the addressee(s) named herein and may contain legally privileged and/or confidential information. If you are not the intended recipient of this e-mail, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this e-mail, and any attachments thereto, is strictly prohibited. If you have received this e-mail in error, please immediately notify me and permanently delete the original and any copy of any e-mail and any printout thereof. E-mail transmission cannot be guaranteed to be secure or error-free. The sender therefore does not accept liability for any errors or omissions in the contents of this message which arise as a result of e-mail transmission. REGARDING PRIVACY AND CONFIDENTIALITY Crown Financial Group may, at its discretion, monitor and review the content of all e-mail communications. - List info/subscribe/unsubscribe? See http://www.freeradius.org/list/users.html
