Maintaining a (very) dynamic user list with freeradius

[Peter Nixon]

On Fri 02 Nov 2007, Jos Vos wrote:
> Hi,
>
> What is the best way to maintain a very dynamic user list for freeradius
> (on a Linux platform)?
>
> I'm talking about a setup where every few minutes (sometimes every minute)
> a user has to be added and/or removed, with in total up to about 200 users
> in the user base at the same moment.
>
> Ideally, I'd like to just regenerate the users file with a script whenever
> a change is needed and let radiusd reload it, but I saw in the docs that
> reloading the config (and the users file) is "expensive", so this will
> probably not be very suitable for this situation.
>
> If anyhow possible I'd like to minimize any extra overhead, and avoid
> running PostgreSQL or MySQL servers, for example.  Maybe use DBM?
>
> What is recommended for this purpose?

Use either SQL or LDAP...


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