Fetching users from external source

[Stefan Paetow]

> Having seen the amount of tables and properties in the sql module, I assumed it would be both overkill and too complicated to set up for my quite simple usage scenario. But maybe I am mistaken and it is as easy as giving freeradius the credentials and putting the usernames & passwords in a single table?

It is that simple really. You won't need all the tables that the SQL module exposes. The radcheck table does in a database format what the users file does, i.e. 

+- id -+- username ---+--- attribute ------+ op +-- value    ---+
| xxxx | username1    | ClearText-Password | := | password here |
+------+--------------+--------------------+----+---------------+
:
:

Pardon the crude ASCII art. Of course, if you don't use the password in the clear (which is a Bad Thing™), choose one of the password schemes here: http://deployingradius.com/documents/protocols/compatibility.html

It will tell you which RADIUS authentication types work with which hashing type, although something like EAP-TTLS/PAP or EAP-TTLS/EAP-GTC with PAP will pretty much work with all of them. :-)

Stefan Paetow
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