Sending Accounting Response

[Alan DeKok]

Padam J Singh wrote:
>>From the RFC 2866:

  Yes, I have read the RFC's.  They're even in the FreeRADIUS source
tree.  They'are referenced from http://freeradius.org/rfc/, which was
built by me.

> The RFC doesn't categorically say that an accounting response packet SHOULD NOT have attributes.

  Read the REST of the RFC.  Specifically, the Table of Attributes.

> The NAS is an application I have written - so I will be able to parse attributes in an accounting response.

  Your application is wrong.  If it needs to have attributes sent back
in an Accounting-Response packet, then it's not doing RADIUS properly.

> If the standard postgres module cannot be used to send back attributes in an accounting-response packet, 
> can I do the same using any other module like JRadius? I have gone through the rlm_jradius source code, 
> and it looks like it doesn't differentiate between accounting and authorization responses when reading value pairs.

  If you can get something to work, good luck.  But the server is NOT
intended to send attributes back in the Accounting-Response.

  Alan DeKok.