use realms to access different mysql tables

[Alexander Papenburg]

Hi Kevin,

this works very well (still some probs with accounting, but hey i'll get 
it tomorrow), thanks for your advice.


Cheers!

Alexander


Kevin Bonner schrieb:
> On Tuesday 27 March 2007 18:13:09 Alexander Papenburg wrote:
>> Hi Freeradius-Mailing-List,
>>
>> does anyone of you differentiate sql database table with realms?
>> E.g.:
>>
>> Auth-Requests for user1 at realm1 will be checked against table db_radius1
>> Auth-Requests for user1 at realm2 will be checked against table db_radius2
>> .....and so on.
>>
>> I already found out that it is possible to use multiple sql instances,
>> but for what i understand is that they would be asked/checked one after
>> another. That would be nice for failover scenarios but if there are
>> about 20-30 realms to check it would be result in a very slow
>> performance (depending on mysql host speed).
>> So is there a better way to solve this Problem? All users in one
>> database is at the time unfortunately no option...
>>
>>
>> Thanks in advance
>>
>> Alex
> 
> An example of this is below.  In each sql definition you can define the 
> different queries necessary to handle a particular realm.  realm3 shows how 
> to allow multiple realms to use the same db/SQL queries, so you can easily 
> merge the databases over time and update the users file to reflect the db 
> changes.
> 
> Kevin Bonner
> 
> == sql.conf ==
> sql db1 { ... }
> sql db2 { ... }
> ...
> == sql.conf ==
> 
> == radiusd.conf ==
> authorize {
>     ...
>     Autz-Type SQL1 {
>         db1
>     }
>     Autz-Type SQL2 {
>         db2
>     }
> }
> == radiusd.conf ==
> 
> == users ==
> DEFAULT Realm == "realm1", Autz-Type := SQL1
> DEFAULT Realm == "realm2", Autz-Type := SQL2
> DEFAULT Realm == "realm3", Autz-Type := SQL2
> ...      OR
> DEFAULT User-Name =~ "@realm1$", Autz-Type := SQL1
> DEFAULT User-Name =~ "@realm2$", Autz-Type := SQL2
> DEFAULT User-Name =~ "@realm3$", Autz-Type := SQL2
> == users ==
> 
> 
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