Thanks for the help Alan,

I see what you mean now.  I guess I assumed that the radacct database was more than a recording of session start and end times.  Is there another table that I should be seeing user activity in?   In other words I was thinking that user activity (ie. the commands they entered) would be logged somewhere in the sql tables vice in the /var/log/radius/radacct/IP_ADDR/detail_`date` file.   Can I simply create a new table called for instance Acct_activity and modify the dialup.conf file to dump that data in that table keying on session-id and time for instance?  I'm sure that's not supposed to be in the radacct table.  btw:  where do I comment out radutmp?

N

On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 11:56 AM, Alan Buxey <A.L.M.Buxey@lboro.ac.uk> wrote:
Hi,

>
> rad_recv: Accounting-Request packet from host x.x.x.120 port 51637, id=50, length=95
>         Acct-Status-Type = Interim-Update
>         Acct-Session-Id = "C2594B9A71DB"
>         Acct-Delay-Time = 0
>         User-Name = "joe.bobuser"
>         NAS-Identifier = "M20"
>         Juniper-Interactive-Command = "run start shell "
>         NAS-IP-Address = x.x.x.120
> +- entering group preacct {...}
> ++[preprocess] returns ok
> [acct_unique] WARNING: Attribute NAS-Port was not found in request, unique ID MAY be inconsistent

your NAS is doing all sorts of things wrong really. its supposed to supply  a NAS-Port and that value
is supposed to change for each session.  oh well.  edit your  modules/acct_unique to put something else
into the hashing function

> [radutmp]       expand: /var/log/radius/radutmp -> /var/log/radius/radutmp
> [radutmp]       expand: %{User-Name} -> joe.bobuser
>   rlm_radutmp: No NAS-Port seen.  Cannot do anything.
>   rlm_radumtp: WARNING: checkrad will probably not work!

are you using radutmp? if not, comment it out.


> As can be seen above the rad_recv: section is sending back a few items that I am interested in having logged.  For instance the Juniper-Interactive-Command.
>
> Thanks if you can help or point me in the right direction.

simply add those attributes (if present!) into the SQL  that create the accounting
INSERT/UPDATE commands - sql/mysql/dialup.conf - and ensure the table is ready for them! :-)

alan
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