Maintaining a (very) dynamic user list with freeradius

[Jos Vos]

On Mon, Nov 05, 2007 at 08:04:02AM +0100, Alan DeKok wrote:

>   Agreed.  But that is *Redhat's* problem, not ours.  *Redhat* should
> provide support for 3-year-old versions of FreeRADIUS.

I never suggested that someone *should* support the old version.  I posted
a message to a public mailing list (i.e. freeradius-users) and hoped for
people to answer it (which actually happened), just like a lot of people
do on most other public mailing lists.  You *almost* suggest that I
shouldn't dare to do that, as long as I don't run the latest version.

Of course, I fully understand the advice to run the latest version and I
appreciate that, but there are many reasons to run a certain version
(and I tried to explain a few of them).  And of course, you and others on
the list are completely free to ignore my questions, whatever version I'm
running, so I hope you don't feel offended by it, especially in case I
mention that I'm running 1.0.1.

> > Just to clarify my situation:
> > In my case, we're talking about an installed base of RHEL4 systems in
> > a mission-critical environment, using non-standard PC-hardware,
> > installed at many remote locations throughout the country, so ideally
> > this should stay working for 5+ years without reinstallation.
> 
>   And you're *not* willing to purchase support?  Wow...

Note that RHEL4 is actually X/OS Linux 4, our own rebuild of RHEL4 (that
we provide for free for everyone, b.t.w., see www.xoslinux.org).  Adding
a FreeRADIUS server to those devices for access control on a wireless
access point is just a small extra feature.  If we would have to buy
support contracts, upgrade the OS, or whatever, we would never do that
project.  We also know some companies running our X/OS Linux, asking us
questions (which we're also free to answer or ignore, of course), and
not willing (or able?) to buy support contracts.  But that's the way it
works in the Open Source world.

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