(RADIATOR) <AuthBy EXTERNAL> Can't pass received attribute to external program via STDIN
Hugh Irvine
hugh at open.com.au
Mon Oct 13 06:10:54 CDT 2003
Hello Man -
You can download the latest evaluation with your existing username and
password.
I have copied Joanne on this mail so she can help you.
regards
Hugh
On Monday, Oct 13, 2003, at 18:32 Australia/Melbourne, Man Meng Fei
wrote:
> Hi
> May i know where can i get Radiator 3.7.1, if i am using evaluation
> version ?
>
>
> MAN
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-radiator at open.com.au [mailto:owner-radiator at open.com.au] On
> Behalf Of Hugh Irvine
> Sent: Monday, October 13, 2003 10:46 AM
> To: mf_man at unifiedcomms.com
> Cc: radiator at open.com.au
> Subject: Re: (RADIATOR) <AuthBy EXTERNAL> Can't pass received attribute
> to external program via STDIN
>
>
>
> Hello Man -
>
> Thanks for the information.
>
> As far as we are aware there should be no problems with the latest
> Radiator 3.7.1 on any platform.
>
> You should upgrade to Radiator 3.7.1.
>
> regards
>
> Hugh
>
>
> On Monday, Oct 13, 2003, at 11:33 Australia/Melbourne, Man Meng Fei
> wrote:
>
>> Hi
>> I intend to use Radiator as radius server to communicate with Quintum
>> VOIP gateway. The Radiator is deployed on Windows 2000 Platform.
>> Currently i am using ActiveState Active Perl 5.8.1. Anything wrong in
>> the platform ?
>>
>>
>>
>> MAN
>> Could you please tell me what hardware/software platform you are
>> running and what versions of Windows and Perl?
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: owner-radiator at open.com.au [mailto:owner-radiator at open.com.au]
>> On Behalf Of Hugh Irvine
>> Sent: Friday, October 10, 2003 9:07 AM
>> To: mf_man at unifiedcomms.com
>> Cc: radiator at open.com.au
>> Subject: Re: (RADIATOR) <AuthBy EXTERNAL> Can't pass received
>> attribute to external program via STDIN
>>
>>
>>
>> Hello Man -
>>
>> You are correct, Radiator will stop while the program specified by the
>
>> AuthBy EXTERNAL command executes. If the program never exits, then
>> Radiator will wait forever. You should add some "print ..." statements
>
>> to the code in the external program to see what it is doing.
>>
>> BTW - you can also use hooks in your Radiator configuration file for
>> running your own code. See the examples in "goodies/hooks.txt". And of
>
>> course you can also write your own AuthBy module as another
>> alternative.
>>
>> Could you please tell me what hardware/software platform you are
>> running and what versions of Windows and Perl?
>>
>> regards
>>
>> Hugh
>>
>>
>> On Friday, Oct 10, 2003, at 10:38 Australia/Melbourne, Man Meng Fei
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi
>>> Previously i did ask a question regarding test run <AuthBy External>
>>> by using sample configuration (external.cfg) and perl script
>>> (testcommand.pl) which can be found in the goodies directory.
>>>
>>> After read thru all the replied emails and relevant document, i tried
>
>>> to execute this sample configuration and perl scrip again. But i
>>> still fail
>>> to get the correct respond.
>>>
>>> Hope you can answer the following question.
>>> 1.Follwoing are the console screen display of RADIUS server after
>>> receive Accept request from the client
>>>
>>> -------------------Console Screen------------------------- Thu Oct 9
>
>>> 22:54:02 2003: DEBUG: Reading dictionary file 'c:/Program Files/Radia
>
>>> tor/dictionary' Thu Oct 9 22:54:02 2003: DEBUG: Creating
>>> authentication port 0.0.0.0:1645
>>> Thu Oct 9 22:54:02 2003: DEBUG: Creating accounting port
> 0.0.0.0:1646
>>> Thu Oct 9 22:54:02 2003: NOTICE: Server started: Radiator 3.7 on man
>>> (EVALUATIO
>>> N)
>>> Thu Oct 9 22:54:04 2003: DEBUG: Packet dump:
>>> *** Received from 127.0.0.1 port 3330 ....
>>> Code: Access-Request
>>> Identifier: 199
>>> Authentic: 1234567890123456
>>> Attributes:
>>> User-Name = "mikem"
>>> Service-Type = Framed-User
>>> NAS-IP-Address = 203.63.154.1
>>> NAS-Port = 1234
>>> Called-Station-Id = "123456789"
>>> Calling-Station-Id = "987654321"
>>> NAS-Port-Type = Async
>>> User-Password =
>>> "<159><249>:<201><175>\<4><246><188>8<9><160><216>}x<153
>>>> "
>>>
>>> Thu Oct 9 22:54:04 2003: DEBUG: Handling request with Handler
>>> 'Realm=DEFAULT' Thu Oct 9 22:54:04 2003: DEBUG: Deleting session
>>> for
>>
>>> mikem, 203.63.154.1, 1234
>>>
>>> Thu Oct 9 22:54:04 2003: DEBUG: Running command: c:/perl/bin/perl
>>> ./goodies/tes tcommand.pl
>>>
>>> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
>>> -
>>> -
>>> -
>>> ----
>>> Above information has shown that radius server received all the
>>> attribute value from client, and it called the external program which
>>> has been define in <AuthBy External>. But somehow radius server
> didn't
>>> pass those attributes to external program via STDIN after executed
> the
>>> external program.
>>>
>>> My question do we need to configure radius configuration file in
>>> order
>>
>>> to direct radius server pass those attributes to external program via
>
>>> STDIN ?
>>>
>>> 2.From the above console screen, i also discovered that radius server
>
>>> was halt after calling external program testcommand.pl. I found there
>
>>> is a endless while loop in the testcommand.pl which is shown as
>>> following
>>>
>>> while (<>)
>>> {
>>> chomp;
>>>
>>> if ($_ =~ /^\s*([^\s=]+)\s*=\s*"((\\"|[^"])*)"/)
>>> {
>>> # Quoted value
>>> $input{$1} = $2;
>>> }
>>> elsif ($_ =~ /^([^\s=]+)\s*=\s*(.*)/)
>>> {
>>> # Unquoted value
>>> $input{$1} = $2;
>>> }
>>> }
>>> :
>>> :
>>> My question is can it be the root to cause the radius server halt ?
>>>
>>>
>>> thank you
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> MAN MENG FEI
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> while ($counter < 4)
>>> {
>>> print "while\n";
>>> chomp;
>>>
>>> if ($_ =~ /^\s*([^\s=]+)\s*=\s*"((\\"|[^"])*)"/)
>>> {
>>> # Quoted value
>>> print "Quoted value\n";
>>> $input{$1} = $2;
>>> }
>>> elsif ($_ =~ /^([^\s=]+)\s*=\s*(.*)/)
>>> {
>>> # Unquoted value
>>> print "Unquoted value\n";
>>> $input{$1} = $2;
>>> }
>>> $counter++;
>>> }
>>> :
>>> :
>>>
>>>
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>>
>> NB: have you included a copy of your configuration file (no secrets),
>> together with a trace 4 debug showing what is happening?
>>
>> --
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>> anywhere. Available on *NIX, *BSD, Windows, MacOS X.
>> -
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>> flexible with hardware, software, platform and database independence.
>>
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>
> NB: have you included a copy of your configuration file (no secrets),
> together with a trace 4 debug showing what is happening?
>
> --
> Radiator: the most portable, flexible and configurable RADIUS server
> anywhere. Available on *NIX, *BSD, Windows, MacOS X.
> -
> Nets: internetwork inventory and management - graphical, extensible,
> flexible with hardware, software, platform and database independence.
>
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NB: have you included a copy of your configuration file (no secrets),
together with a trace 4 debug showing what is happening?
--
Radiator: the most portable, flexible and configurable RADIUS server
anywhere. Available on *NIX, *BSD, Windows, MacOS X.
-
Nets: internetwork inventory and management - graphical, extensible,
flexible with hardware, software, platform and database independence.
===
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