How to use the counter module

Martin Potgieter martin at systemadmin.co.za
Sun Nov 13 23:02:43 CET 2005


Martin.Ward at uk.neceur.com wrote:

>OK, I had no luck with my previous email so let's try a different approach.
>
>Could I use the Counter module to count the number of times a user gets
>their password wrong? I guess I need to call Counter on Access-Reject, or
>just before the Reply packet is sent as I can check the attributes sent
>back. This would be in the post-process area I think.
>
>  
>
You want to reject a user if they get their password wrong more than X 
times over a period of X ?
Not sure about the counter module but you could use sqlcounter module 
and query the radpostauth table.

martin



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