Obtaining Radius attributes for a user

Alan DeKok aland at deployingradius.com
Thu Aug 29 20:33:17 CEST 2019


On Aug 29, 2019, at 2:22 PM, JCA <1.41421 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Is it possible to obtain the attributes associated with a user defined in a
> Radius server, after having authenticated the user?

  The RADIUS server doesn't really define attributes for a user.  It returns attributes in a packet, but those attributes may have come from many different sources.

> My guess is that such
> attributes can only be retrieved as the successful response to an
> Access-Request, embedded in the Access-Accept message.
> 
> Thus, if one wants to obtain such attributes again, the authentication must
> be completed again. Is this correct?

  Yes.

  Or, in the "post-auth" section, write the attributes somewhere.

  Alan DeKok.





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