[RADIATOR] Accessing Timestamp in Postauthhook during Access-Request

[Christopher Bland]

Hugh,

Heikki nailed on the head I switched to %l which is what we use in our 
other authlog clauses and it worked just fine.  I was thinking something 
else had to be done in a postauthhook.

Just wanted to say thanks for all your help.

-Chris

Hugh Irvine wrote:
> Hello Heikki, Hello Chris -
>
> Heikki is correct - the "Timestamp" is only available in accounting requests.
>
> This is because accounting requests can contain an "Acct-Delay-Time" in case of retransmissions, and Radiator automatically corrects the Timestamp to the time the event occured - ie. current time minus Acct-Delay-Time. There is no equivalent for access requests because you aren't doing billing on access requests.
>
> This is why my response also suggested looking at the other special characters in section 5.2 of the manual ("doc/ref.pdf").
>
> regards
>
> Hugh
>
>
> On 20 Feb 2010, at 06:47, Heikki Vatiainen wrote:
>
>   
>> On 02/19/2010 08:58 PM, Chris Bland wrote:
>>
>>     
>>> Still now sure what's not working.  I tried you solution in a file by
>>> itself and this is what showed up in the logs
>>>       
>> I am not Hugh, but took look at this too :)
>>
>>     
>>> Fri Feb 19 11:37:25 2010: DEBUG: AuthBy LDAP2 result: ACCEPT,
>>> Fri Feb 19 11:37:25 2010: DEBUG: Timestamp is
>>> Fri Feb 19 11:37:25 2010: DEBUG: Access accepted for chris at fdu.edu
>>>
>>> I forgot to mention in my original post that I am able to get the
>>> Timestamp during other requests just not in the Access-Request.
>>>       
>> I think Timestamp is only available in Accounting-Request packets.
>>
>> If you check the manual for version 4.5.1, section 5.29.16
>> "AcctColumnDef", there is discussion about the Timestamp attribute and
>> how it is added by Radiator to received Accounting-Requests.
>>
>> The log snippet you included shows that the attribute is not in
>> Access-Request and since it is not added by Radiator, I think that
>> explains why you can not see it.
>>
>> If the need is only to log the timestamp of request arrival, maybe %B or
>> the other time related specifiers would do. For example, %B does not
>> depend on the request contents, but is the result of strftime(time()) call.
>>
>> -- 
>> Heikki Vatiainen, Arch Red Oy
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>
>
>
> NB: 
>
> Have you read the reference manual ("doc/ref.html")?
> Have you searched the mailing list archive (www.open.com.au/archives/radiator)?
> Have you had a quick look on Google (www.google.com)?
> 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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