Using the authenticate function on rlm_python

[Francis Augusto Medeiros-Logeay]

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Francis Augusto Medeiros-Logeay
Oslo, Norway
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> On 16 Nov 2024, at 14:51, Alan DeKok <aland at deployingradius.com> wrote:
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> On Nov 16, 2024, at 4:53 AM, Francis Augusto Medeiros-Logeay <r_f at med-lo.eu> wrote:
>> I was, but I also tested with running radiusd as a service. Got the same results. Somehow the python module is blocking other threads
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>  The Python interpreter has a global lock (GIL).  So I suspect that's it.

Yup, I’ve seen that in the past people mentioned that. 


>> Is there a special way to do it? What I do is that I send two authenticate requests, and see at the second never gets processed until the first one returns something to the client.
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>  See radiusd.conf, "thread pool"
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>  If Python doesn't work, maybe try Perl.

To be honest, I was thinking of biting the bullet and do it with a combination of unlang and rest and using exec in bash for polling the server. 

Would you recommend this approach instead of doing it in Perl?

Best,
Francis