RE: how to use groups within freeradius

28 Jun 2011

      Phil

you examples was straight on, and very helpful. I ended up using SQLgroup within "/etc/freeradius/users + huntgrousps"  and the groups that I've created & it worked the very 1st time, & with no problems. To answer your other question, this is with freeradius version;

root@TACACS:/etc/init.d# freeradius -v | grep Version
freeradius: FreeRADIUS Version 1.1.3, for host i486-pc-linux-gnu, built on Mar 30 2007 at 22:44:34
root@TACACS:/etc/init.d#

Thanks

-----Original Message-----
From: freeradius-users-bounces+kfelix=jdltech.com@lists.freeradius.org on behalf of Phil Mayers
Sent: Tue 6/28/2011 3:55 AM
To: freeradius-users@lists.freeradius.org
Subject: Re: how to use  groups within freeradius

On 06/27/2011 09:29 PM, Ken Felix wrote:
...
Can anybody post a simple howto with regards to using groups within
freeradius?  What we would like todo is restricted some user from
logging into various firewalls. I've created usergroups and defined
Which version of FreeRADIUS are you using?

Anyway, the group config you've written doesn't do what you want. All it 
says is "if you're this username and coming from these IPs, you're in 
the gruop".

You're not actually acting in the group membership.

There are lots of ways to do this, but personally I prefer to keep SQL 
groups entirely user-based, and use huntgroups for NAS IPs, then compare 
the two. So:

raddb/huntgrousp:

restricted	NAS-IP-Address == 192.0.2.1

raddb/sites-enabled/xxx:

authozie {
   if (Huntgroup-Name == restricted) {
     if (SQL-Group == "restricted") {
       # ok to login
     }
     else {
       reject
     }
   }
}

...or if you prefer to us a "users" file, in raddb/users:

DEFAULT	Huntgroup-Name == restricted, SQL-Group == "restricted"
	Fall-Through = No
DEFAULT	Huntgroup-Name == restricted, Auth-Type := Reject
	Fall-Through = No

There are lots of other ways to accomplish this. The point being, you 
need to actually check the group, and if you define the group so that it 
depends on the username, and they thing they're permitted to access, 
then you're essentially writing a whitelist and would need something 
like, in your example, raddb/users:

DEFAULT	SQL-Group == xxx
	Fall-Through = No

DEFAULT	SQL-Group == yyy
	Fall-Through = No

DEFAULT	Auth-Type := Reject
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