Re: I have a question about an additional feature to the Radius

William Bulley (web@merit.edu)
Mon, 25 Sep 1995 18:25:01 -0400 (EDT)

According to Garry Shtern:
>
> I was wondering, maybe anybody has anything of this sort already, so I
> don't have to reinvent the wheel... I am looking for a script file that
> will hang up a user after a sertain amount of time.. Lets say I limit
> their access to 2 hours daily, I want portmaster to kick them off after
> those two hours... And possibly, yet I don't think that its possible to
> send them a warning message like 5 minutes prior to this event... I was
> wondering if thats possible...

The just announced Merit RADIUS 2.4 release has something like what you
want. You can use the Session-Timeout attribute (it may or may not be
supported in ComOS on the PortMaster, ask Carl) as a reply-item for any
of your users. The idea is to inform the PortMaster when you want them
to be "done" and the PortMaster will disconnect them. You do this by
configuring the Session-Timeout attribute in, say, the users file and
it is sent back to the PortMaster when the person is authenticated.

A useful administrative utility called rlmadmin is part of the new 2.4
release which knows about this attribute. Read the rlmadmin(8) man page.

Regards,

web...

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