Dusty, Thanks for your fine input and the reminder on the index (I completely forgot about that). I'll give the ldap module filter a go with the attr_rewrite. I like keeping attributes with the user object, rather than spreading usernames around to various other objects. With this implementation, to me, the extra benefit is that I can just add a radiusGroupName attribute = X to each user object. BTW, on the attr_rewrite, can I use more advanced regex than just ................: ? It works and always will work, but it would be more clear in the config file if I could say "([A-F0-9]{2})-([A-F0-9]{2})-([A-F0-9]{2})-([A-F0-9]{2})-([A-F0-9]{2})-([A-F0-9]{2}):" or something to that effect... I couldn't get ANY regex to work except the . Does that seem right? Stefan

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On Mon, 19 Dec 2005, Stefan Adams wrote:

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Hey, guys! Thanks for the great replies!! I like what you suggested better than what I've come up with in the mean time. I think what I came up with will work, it just seems messy/wrong/inefficient. What do you think?

modules { ldap { : filter =

"(&(uid=%{Stripped-User-Name:-%{User-Name}}) (radiusGroupName=%{Called-Station-ID}))" : } attr_rewrite getssid { attribute = Called-Station-Id searchin = packet searchfor = ".................:" replacewith = "" ignore_case = yes new_attribute = no } }

authorize { # for WinXP, 802.1x, EAP-PEAP, MS-CHAPv2 preprocess eap getssid ldap }

This cuts off the first 17 bytes and then a colon of the Called-Station-ID (My AP transmits a dash separated MAC followed by a colon and then the SSID). Then it uses this rewritten Called-Station-ID and uses that as a filter in the LDAP search. Therefore, if the SSID a user tries to connect to is not listed as an attribute of the user's LDAP object, the user is denied.

Does that make sense?

That's a pretty neat idea. The benefit of that is if you had multiple ldap instances and wanted to implement fail-over within freeradius. To do it the traditional way, you would need this for fail-over with ldap-group checks if say you had two ldap instances.

DEFAULT Called-Station-Id =~ /studentregex/, ldap1-Ldap-Group == "students"

DEFAULT Called-Station-Id =~ /studentregex/, ldap2-Ldap-Group == "students"

That is so it will check with ldap1 instance first. If that fails, then check ldap2.

By doing it your way, you won't need to do that anymore. Instead a redundant block in authorize would get you what you need already since the radiusGroupname inside your search filter takes care of the Ldap-Group check.

I wonder if you could use regex matches of Called-Station-ID in the huntgroups file. You'll have to test this out, I doubt it would work, but its another interesting idea. I don't know if huntgroups excepts regex and if it can use things like Called-Station-Id

in huntgroups

students Called-Station-Id =~ /studentregex/ faculty Called-Station-Id =~ /facultyregex/

Then in users file.

DEFAULT Ldap-Group == %{Huntgroup-Name}

Or you're way.

(&(uid=%{Stripped-User-Name:-%{User-Name}})(radiusGroupName=%{Huntgroup-Name}))"

See doc/configurable_failover and doc/rlm_ldap to see what I'm talking about with the failover. If you have a load balancer in front of that ldap server, you won't need to worry about it. But if you don't and you want to add redundancy, then its something you'll need to think about some day. Freeradius can do the redundancy for you w/out a load balancer or shared IP using configurable failover. Actually in the upcoming 1.1 release it will also do load balancing for you in addition to failover inside your ldap blocks.

Hope I'm not too confusing. My point is I like your idea and if its working for you, it doesn't sound like a bad one to me. You might want to try hitting it hard to see if the rewrite slows anything down, but I would bet it doesn't.

I'd also make sure to add an eq index to radiusgroupname, since you'll be using that as part of your search filter.