gdm and radius accounting

[Alan DeKok]

sub wrote:
> what I was expecting (but I'm not an expert, it's possible that it's
> not a radius feature and I misunderstood it) is that the client
> periodically sends accounting-request packets ("I'm alive!") to the
> server and so the server updates the sql db.

  It would have helped to say that.  Instead, you said: "it does
accounting start and stop, but I want it do accounting!"

  And due to the way that PAM works, it's impossible to send "alive"
packets.  The pam_radius module is called *only* for start/stop.  So it
*only* sends start/stop packets.

> I don't want something magic but if the users enters and he has only
> one more minute for his daily session, he we'll be able to be logged
> if he doesn't logoff by hand.

  I don't understand that sentence.

  I *think* you're trying to ask if the PAM module supports
Session-Timeout.  And no, it doesn't, because PAM has no such capability.

> maybe I misundersood how radius accounting works...

  Explain what you mean using full sentences.  The more explanation the
better.  Leaving words out means that it's difficult to understand you.

  Alan DeKok.