Unix domain socket support for authentication and accounting?

[William Tang]

> I can’t realize a use-case for that… but, if you don’t mind please share
with us what you have in mind…
I have a server running both strongswan VPN server and freeradius for
authentication and accounting.  Unix domain sockets would be more efficient
for communication between processes on the same machine.

>  Btw, you could do some _hack_ using _socat_ as described in
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2149564/redirecting-tcp-traffic-to-a-unix-domain-socket-under-linux
to
see if the _unix-socket_ is useful in your case.
Thanks for the suggestion, but redirecting the traffic will introduce even
more overhead than plain tcp.  So, freeradius does not support unix domain
socket for authentication and accounting, right?

On Mon, May 2, 2022 at 1:07 AM Jorge Pereira <jpereira at freeradius.org>
wrote:

> I can’t realize a use-case for that… but, if you don’t mind please share
> with us what you have in mind…
>
> Btw, you could do some _hack_ using _socat_ as described in
> https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2149564/redirecting-tcp-traffic-to-a-unix-domain-socket-under-linux to
> see if the _unix-socket_ is useful in your case.
>
> On 30 Apr 2022, at 04:46, Bjørn Mork <bjorn at mork.no> wrote:
>
> William Tang <galaxyking0419 at gmail.com> writes:
>
> I'm wondering if freeradius has/will support for unix domain sockets
> for authentication and accounting?
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>
> Do you have a use case for that or are you just wondering?
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> Bjørn
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