Re: Shell accounts not working

Leo Savage (leo@esva.net)
Fri, 15 Sep 1995 11:42:57 -0400 (EDT)

On Fri, 15 Sep 1995, William Bulley wrote:

> 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. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^

I did that. It still doesn't work. I once got it to tell me (on a test
account) that I had five days left, but now it doesn't even do THAT.

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