Re: 2.0.0 / 2.0.6 problem ^_^;

Cristian Gafton (gafton@sorosis.ro)
Fri, 17 Jan 1997 15:12:07 +0200 (EET)

On Fri, 17 Jan 1997, Peter Evans wrote:

> Fri Jan 17 20:17:48 1997: [16241] auth: access-request from netserver1-tokyo (202.243.48.200) denied for unknown user iware
> Fri Jan 17 20:17:48 1997: [16241] Sending Reject of id 211 to netserver1-tokyo (202.243.48.200)
> Fri Jan 17 20:17:48 1997: [16242] auth: access-request from portmaster4 (202.243.51.11) denied for unknown user gman
> Fri Jan 17 20:17:48 1997: [16242] Sending Reject of id 76 to portmaster4 (202.243.51.11)
>
> it fails all users. at about 3/second ^_^;;
>
> after a quick "builddbm" and
>
> /etc/radiusd -x -b
>
> it works fine. which makes me wonder about just what he changed.
> FYI, untouched 2.0 works fine until it core-dumps for some other reason.

I assume the DB format used for users database is changed. My version
links against gdbm (much much better then dbm/ndbm). If you didn't pay
attention to this detail, then it is possible that the new radiusd was not
recognising the users database format.

Cristian Gafton

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