Re: Radius deployment question

2004-08-27 Thread Maqbool Hashim
Great, thanks to everyone who made suggestions, I'm going to go ahead and implement according to Alan's suggestion because of the amount of seperation that it gives and it seems the best way of acheiving this. One other point, if we are using a an sql backend then the radiusd process would

Re: Radius deployment question

2004-08-26 Thread Maqbool Hashim
Hi, Do you mean I could seperate users from different realms into different database tables? Is this what it means my using schemas? So rather than have one users table, I can have many different tables with users from different realms? And allow customers access to only the user table

Re: Radius deployment question

2004-08-26 Thread Maqbool Hashim
Alan DeKok wrote: You would be better of having the customers manage their own RADIUS servers, and having you just proxy to those servers. If the customers don't want to manage their own servers, you can still have a server locally, per-customer. That way, you can give each customer limited

Re: Radius deployment question

2004-08-26 Thread Dana Hudes
a schema is a set of tables within a database. you can have identical table structure and names in each schema. you would need to fully specify the tables when referring to them. not 'users' , which is really 'public.users' , but for customer foo you could have 'foo.users' and customer baz

Re: Radius deployment question

2004-08-26 Thread Alan DeKok
Maqbool Hashim [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok so the way this would work is to have an instance of the radiusd program running for every customer. Just point it at the right configuration files for the customer and bind it to a different port for each customer.Then give the customer

Radius deployment question

2004-08-25 Thread Maqbool Hashim
I'd like to know if it is possible to allow external customers limited access to add users to our RADIUS configuration. We manage many firewalls for different customers. VPN users on the firewalls can be authenticated via our Freeradius server. So when another VPN needs to be setup on the

Re: Radius deployment question

2004-08-25 Thread Alan DeKok
Maqbool Hashim [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd like to know if it is possible to allow external customers limited access to add users to our RADIUS configuration. Yes, but it's probably a bad idea. Is this possible? I know this will involve realms, but how can we get the customer to update

Re: Radius deployment question

2004-08-25 Thread Dana Hudes
at the database level you can create a database user and GRANT them rights on the users table. That would, howeer, allow them to mess with users of other external customrs. If you tag vpn users so you can identify to whom the user belongs, you can use an application which authenticates the