Re: Radius CAche???

Mury Johnson (mury@main.goldengate.net)
Fri, 28 Jun 1996 17:36:34 -0500 (CDT)

That sure doesn't sound like the answer. It would help to know if you
are using UNIX passwords, or leaving them in the users file. With the
lack of information provided it sounds like they are changing their UNIX
password, and not the password in the users file. Does restarting radius
really solve the problem???!!!

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On Fri, 28 Jun 1996, Alex wrote:

> I am having a slight problem with radius. I allow users to change their passwords via the telnet shell
> account. Problem is when a user changes his password, they can telnet in with their new password but
> then when they dial in radius only knows the old password. I dont think radius caches users passwords
> and user account but I tries to solve the problem with crontab. I still cam into a problem. I created a
> cron file that looked like this.
>
> 0,20,40 * * * * killall radiusd.esva;/etc/raddb/radiusd.esva -s -p .ppp
> This kills radius and restarts it every 20 minutes incase I am not there to restart it. Now this is what
> a ps -uax shows
>
> root 19619 0.0 1.9 824 612 p1 S 14:25 0:00 /etc/raddb/radiusd.esva -s -p .pp
>
> Notice that it says .pp instead of ppp so it doesn't pass the .ppp for pap. I have tried several things.
> Why thay hack wont it put that last p? Is there a cron command line limit or something?
>