pam radius integration with http server

Alan DeKok aland at ox.org
Fri Nov 18 18:27:00 CET 2005


nagaraj <nagaraj2 at gmail.com> wrote:
> hi, I have successfully integrated PAM radius client http boa server to
> facilitate remote authentication. However I am facing few issues. If the
> number of re-tries is configured to 2 and timeout value is set to 3, it
> takes 24 secs to timeout when radius server is not available.

  That's the way RADIUS works.

> Http client is making 4 connections and hence it takes 24
> secs(2*3*4) to timeout. In the event of server not being reachable,
> http server should default to local authentication that happens only
> after 24 secs which is not acceptable. Is there any way I can fine
> tune this?

  Change the timeout or number of retries.

  Alan DeKok.



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