Problems with radutmp

Gerardo Contreras gcontreras at netx.com.mx
Fri Oct 9 20:05:10 CEST 2009


I've been watching the log records from users sessions, and I noted that 
every access from the NAS comes from the same NAS-Port. Could it be the 
reason? If so, is there any way so radutmp registers all of the entries 
even if the nas port is the same?

Gerardo Contreras wrote:
>
> It even happens without using Simultaneous-use. Even if the same user 
> authenticates, radius will delete the previous entry from the radutmp. 
> It only keeps the last logged in user.
>
> By the way, radlast shows the previous users like if there were logged 
> out, but they are indeed still logged in.
>
> I've run tcpdump on the system and the radius server is NOT receiving 
> any STOP accounting package from the NAS.
>
> Gerardo Contreras wrote:
>> Hi.
>>
>> I'm having some problems with radutmp.
>>
>> I'm using an Aruba Mobility Controller which has radauth and radacct 
>> configured to this freeradius server. In fact, I've tried with 
>> freeradius both on centOS and ubuntu with same results.
>>
>> When a user logs in, a corresponding entry is added to radutmp, and 
>> indeed, nobody can log in with this user account (if I activate 
>> Simultaneous-use). But if another users logs in, the entry for the 
>> previous user gets deleted from radutmp, and a new one is added for 
>> this new user. Then, a user with the account from the first user can 
>> log in indeed. In other words, only the last logged in user gets to 
>> the radutmp file.
>>
>> On both boxes, using freeradius 2.1.0.
>>
>> Any idea?
>>
>
>


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