[RADIATOR] "AuthBy URL" with linotp check

Klara Mall klara.mall at kit.edu
Wed Jan 8 10:50:08 UTC 2025


Hi Charly,

On 11/18/24 14:02, Karl Gaissmaier via radiator wrote:
> Am 18.11.24 um 13:44 schrieb Klara Mall via radiator:
> ...
>> I found "Authby External" where I can use a command to do the https 
>> query and return the suitable exit code. This now seems to work very 
>> good with a python script which gets username and password from stdin, 
>> querys the linotp url and returns the appropriate exit code.
> 
> be aware of:
> 
> "<AuthBy EXTERNAL> will wait for the external process to complete before 
> handling more requests, so you should use this carefully, and avoid 
> using long-running commands. If you cannot avoid long-running EXTERNAL 
> commands, you can use the Fork parameter to force <AuthBy EXTERNAL> to 
> fork before calling the external command. This may improve performance."

Thanks for your hints, good to know. For us this is not a big problem 
because the request should be fast and this radiator instance is only 
for doing the otp auth. If the otp auth request hangs, everything will 
be broken anyway.

Best regards
Klara

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