Debian Stretch: No radutmp file though seeing Accounting message at network level [SOLVED]

[Alan Buxey]

All good until this bites you in half a year's time. You really want to be
putting entries into a DB and using a query to find live sessions

alan

On Fri, 14 Sep 2018, 13:15 Olivier, <oza.4h07 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Le ven. 14 sept. 2018 à 13:03, Rens Houben via Freeradius-Users <
> freeradius-users at lists.freeradius.org> a écrit :
>
> >
> >
> > >  I have no idea what Debian has done to their packages.  Ideally, as
> > little as possible.  But...
> >
> > I've got a freeradius install on debian stretch and can confirm the
> > presence of /var/log/freeradius/radutmp and radwtmp.
> >
>
> Thanks to both answers, I read in /var/log/freeradius/radius.log, the
> lines:
>
> (65) Received Accounting-Request Id 153 from 192.168.1.153:34306 to
> 192.168.1.243:1813 length 169
> (65)   Acct-Session-Id = "0000000E-00000009"
> (65)   Acct-Status-Type = Start
> (65)   Acct-Authentic = RADIUS
> (65)   User-Name = "999_0001"
> (65)   NAS-IP-Address = 192.168.1.153
> (65)   Framed-IP-Address = 10.201.2.11
> (65)   NAS-Identifier = "0418d6c093bf"
> (65)   NAS-Port = 0
> (65)   Called-Station-Id = "04-18-D6-C2-93-BF:Foobar"
> (65)   Calling-Station-Id = "48-5A-B6-04-C2-BF"
> (65)   NAS-Port-Type = Wireless-802.11
> (65)   Connect-Info = "CONNECT 0Mbps 802.11b"
> (65) # Executing section preacct from file
> /etc/freeradius/3.0/sites-enabled/default
> (65)         Tmp-String-9 := "ai:"
> (65)           &Acct-Unique-Session-Id := 8ff563640edb7a60c06bc5e9d4c70aa5
> (65) # Executing section accounting from file
> /etc/freeradius/3.0/sites-enabled/default
> (65) Sent Accounting-Response Id 153 from 192.168.1.243:1813 to
> 192.168.1.153:34306 length 0
>
>
> Then I checked /etc/freeradius/3.0/sites-enabled/default content to learn
> that
> its radutmp line was commented out (Debian's default, it seems).
> I un-commented it, restarted and I got my first live entry in radwho !
>
> For reference, here are some file permissions:
>
> # ls -al /var/log/freeradius/
> total 188
> drwxr-xr-x  3 freerad adm       4096 sept. 14 14:03 .
> drwxr-xr-x 11 root    root      4096 sept. 14 13:37 ..
> drwx------  6 freerad freerad   4096 sept. 14 11:30 radacct
> -rw-r--r--  1 freerad freerad 157627 sept. 14 14:03 radius.log
> -rw-------  1 freerad freerad    112 sept. 14 14:03 radutmp
> -rw-r--r--  1 freerad adm       9216 sept. 14 14:03 radwtmp
>
>
> Also, data from/var/log/syslog:
>
> Sep 14 13:20:32 foobar freeradius[6812]:   # Loading module "radutmp" from
> file /etc/freeradius/3.0/mods-enabled/radutmp
> Sep 14 13:20:32 foobar freeradius[6812]:   radutmp {
> Sep 14 13:20:32 foobar freeradius[6812]:   #011filename =
> "/var/log/freeradius/radutmp"
> Sep 14 13:20:32 foobar freeradius[6812]:   #011username = "%{User-Name}"
> Sep 14 13:20:32 foobar freeradius[6812]:   #011case_sensitive = yes
> Sep 14 13:20:32 foobar freeradius[6812]:   #011check_with_nas = yes
> Sep 14 13:20:32 foobar freeradius[6812]:   #011permissions = 384
> Sep 14 13:20:32 foobar freeradius[6812]:   #011caller_id = yes
> Sep 14 13:20:32 foobar freeradius[6812]:   }
>
> Thank you very much for helping
>
> >
> >
> >  > Alan DeKok.
> >
> >
> > -- Rens
> >
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