Re: newbie questions using freeradius as wifi access point

"Will Carter" <wcarter@webitects.com> wrote:

1. I have a separate database from radius that authenticates the user's login/password. I delete all rows from from radcheck for this user. I delete all rows from radreply for this user. I add back a radcheck record and radreply session-timeout record that corresponds to how much time left that they have paid for. Now I log them in (using an xml command to my nas).

Wow... why not just use the "sqlcounter" module, which keeps track of all of this for you?

The underlying problem with this set up is that

... it's unnecessarily complicated. Alan DeKok.