vsa and authenticate-only service-type

[ganesh subramonian]

Hi,
I was trying to use the pam_radius module with the steel-belted-radius-server.
This server does not send vsa's in the reply if i send an "authenticate only" in the access-request.
is this really expected? any idea whether other radius servers be doing something like this?

thanks
ganesh

>The pam_radius module currently uses the service-type authenticate-only when sending an access-request.
>
>The rfc says this about "authenticate only":
>Only Authentication is requested, and no authorization information needs to be returned in the Access-Accept
>
>Does this mean that if I want the server to send some VSA in the reply-message i should not use this?

No. "no authorization information *needs* to be returned" - not
required but you *can* do it if you want.

>Is it OK to not send any service-type?

Yes, that or any other attribute in the reply. For services that *really*
don't require any authorization attributes.

Ivan Kalik
Kalik Informatika ISP



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