User accounts that expire and timeout

[Jaco van Tonder]

The Expiration module does exactly what you require. It also calculates the
correct session timeout and it is fine grained it uses the format
"Expiration := 01 Sep 2005 12:00:00" in the radcheck table. What version of
freeradius are you using? In older versions the granularity of the time was
limited but I am using the version 1.4 with the CVS code for the expiration
module compiled in and it works exactly as you require

Regards

Jaco

 
-----Original Message-----
From: freeradius-users-bounces+jaco=alwayson.co.za at lists.freeradius.org
[mailto:freeradius-users-bounces+jaco=alwayson.co.za at lists.freeradius.org]
On Behalf Of Jon Pipitone
Sent: 07 January 2006 08:15 AM
To: freeradius-users at lists.freeradius.org
Subject: User accounts that expire and timeout

Hey all,

I'm working to set up a wireless hotspot using mikrotik, freeradius, and
mysql.
Actually the initial setup went pretty smoothly, so a big thank you to
everyone
that contributed to the documentation and mailing lists.

Right now I'm looking to set up user accounts that are only valid for a
certain
date range (for instance, from today at noon until tomorrow at noon).  In
essence I want to set some sort of expiry date on the user account.

But, as well, I'd like the session time limit for the user to be set so that
the
user can't stay logged in after the expire date (i.e. log in just before the
expiry time and stay logged in for a few more hours.).  During the time when
the
account is valid (i.e. hasn't expired) the user should be able to log in and
out
as much as the'd like, or stay logged in for the entire time.  In other
words,
the Session-Timeout ought to be exactly the difference in time from when
they
log in to when the account expires.

I've done a bit of reading through the mailing list archives and the
documentation.  I wasn't able to get the Expiration attribute to work (i can
elaborate if need be), but then even if it did it isn't fine-grained enough
(only down to the day) and I still wasn't sure how to automatically adjust
the
Session-Timeout.  I was toying with using a sqlcounter somehow, but I
thought it
best to ask for ideas before I dive in again.  

Thanks in advance,
Regards,
jon 
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