The radius server can process accounting without processing authentication (and vice versa), there is nothing wrong with that...
Simplistically, if you want to use the Simulatenous-Use features built into freeRADIUS, then yes the server must process RADIUS authentication and accounting streams. But this is a matter of how you configure your NAS, not your RADIUS server... >-----Original Message----- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bram >Sent: Thursday, 14 April 2005 7:17 PM >To: freeradius-users@lists.freeradius.org >Subject: Accounting without authorization? > >Hello, > > >Should it be possible that a user can to do accounting without >any authorization? (even for non-existing users?) > >Is this normal or is this a mis-configuration from me (if >someone can tell me what parts are relevant then I'll post them)? > >And if this is normail, then doesn't it make Simultaneous-Use >useless? since one can send an account packet from a >User-Name, which is added to the database to the database >which is checked when an auth-packet is recieved (or am I >missing something?)? > - List info/subscribe/unsubscribe? See http://www.freeradius.org/list/users.html