Changing a Reject into an Accept

19 Nov 2010

      Is it possible to turn a reject into an accept inside the post-auth section? 
The idea is to tunnel specific groups of failed users to an appropriate help
page.

I have tried:

post-auth {
	...

        Post-Auth-Type REJECT {
		if ( .... ) {
			applyTunnelAttributes
			ok
		}
        }
}

The attributes are added, but the 'ok' doesn't change the packet into an
Access-Accept.

I also tried, unsuccessfully,

                        update control {
                                Packet-Type := Access-Accept
                                Response-Packet-Type := Access-Accept
                        }
                        update reply {
                                Packet-Type := Access-Accept
                                Response-Packet-Type := Access-Accept
                        }

(freeradius reports that modifying the value of a virtual attribute is not
supported)

I could mess about with the authenticate section, but this goes against
the stern advice in the default config:

#  Please do not put "unlang" configurations into the "authenticate"
#  section.  Put them in the "post-auth" section instead.  That's what
#  the post-auth section is for.

Going against that advice, the following appears to work:

authenticate {
        Auth-Type PAP {
                pap {
                  ok = return
                  reject = 1
                }
                applyTunnelAttributes
        }
        Auth-Type CHAP {
                chap {
                  ok = return
                  reject = 1
                }
                applyTunnelAttributes
        }
}

So, any better way of achieving this?

Thanks,

Brian.

Changing a Reject into an Accept

Brian Candler