racct and radpostauth

[Arran Cudbard-Bell]

On 8 Sep 2011, at 17:48, Alan DeKok wrote:

> andreapepa wrote:
>> My question is about the correlation beetwen the tables in subject, how can
>> i correlate records without using timestamp but maybe a unique session id?
> 
>  Use the unique session ID.
> 
>> I think this would be helpful when listing  online users, for example when
>> there is no acctstoptime value in radacct and maybe that user in not online
>> anymore,
> 
>  How do you know?
> 
>> or just to sort out a list of the access request/accept/reject
>> report not only by timestamp.
> 
>  Rejected authentications are *not* stored in the accounting database.
> 
>> In Dialupadmin the online user  page list users only by null acctstoptime,
>> but doesn't check( and how would it be possible ) if records belong to a
>> rejected request in radpostauth.
> 
>  See above.
> 


Do you want to link postauth records with accounting records using a shared unique ID? 

As Alan says your NAS won't generate Accounting-Requests if the RADIUS server rejects the user (unless its very broken).

-Arran

Arran Cudbard-Bell
a.cudbardb at freeradius.org

RADIUS - Half the complexity of Diameter