Re: Shell accounts not working
William Bulley (web@merit.edu)
Fri, 15 Sep 1995 10:08:44 -0400 (EDT)
According to Leo Savage:
>
> On Thu, 14 Sep 1995, Stefan Hudson wrote:
>
> > > leo Password = "yatayata", Expiration = "Jan 1, 1996"
> > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> >
> > This doesn't appear to be your original problem, but this will not
> > work. The expiration date MUST be in the "Mmm DD YYYY" format...
> > radius is extremely picky over this.
> >
> > In fact, radius will happily allow the user to connect indefinitely...
>
> Actually, I have tried every format I can imagine (including what you
> suggest, which [surprise!] is NOT what the docs say RADIUS is looking
> for), and have NEVER gotten expiration dates to work. I finally wrote it
> into a totally unrelated program to notice if expired users are logged in,
> and bump them off if so.
You have to uncomment the last two line of the RADIUS dictionary file to
have Password Expiration work. These lines come commented out in the 1.16
Livingston RADIUS distribution. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Regards,
web...
--
William Bulley, N8NXN Senior Systems Research Programmer
Merit Network Inc. Domain: web@merit.edu
4251 Plymouth Road MaBell: (313) 764-9993
Ann Arbor, Michigan 48105-2785 Fax: (313) 747-3185