Hello Steve -
On Thu, 30 Dec 1999, Steve Suehring wrote:
> Hello-
>
> I've done searching on the archive as well as the FAQ and the manual,
> etc. I can't seem to find a suitable approach for this problem.
>
> Our 3com gear likes to send an authentication and accounting record
> whenever someone logs into one of the chassis. This is adding up to be
> more than a few entries into the accounting records.
>
> Is there any way to exclude certain users from accounting? I know I can
> exclude users from being included in the password file log, but I haven't
> figured a workaround for this problem yet. I've made some changes to the
> SessSQL.pm so that the accounting doesn't get added in for that user from
> the chassis. I suppose I could hack around further in the *.pm's for
> this, but I thought there might be a simple way that I'm missing. Also I
> suppose I could just script to remove the offending accounting records on
> a nightly basis too.
>
> I wish I understood preauthhooks better because I might be able to monkey
> with that until I got it to work. Actually it would be cool if you could
> just say: AccountingHandled <username> instead of AccountingHandled for
> all.
>
The usual way to handle this is with a special Handler just for these
accounting packets. I have posted several ways of doing this to the list
recently so you might like to check the archive:
http://www.thesite.com.au/~radiator/
cheers
Hugh
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