Copy inner to outer identity via session-state
Samuel LEFOL
samuel.lefol at univ-lorraine.fr
Wed Feb 11 19:26:01 UTC 2026
Hello,
I've configured a FreeRADIUS 3.2.7 system to run PEAP/MSCHAPv2.
I would like to have Inner-Identity and Outer-Identity displayed in the
logs.
- in mods-enabled/eap, I have:
tls-config tls-common {
...
cache {
enable=yes
lifetime = 24
name = "EAP-EDU module"
persist_dir = "${db_dir}/tlscache"
}
}
peap {
...
copy_request_to_tunnel = no
}
- in sites-enabled/inner-tunnel, I put:
post-auth {
update outer.session-state {
Tmp-String-0 := &User-Name
}
...
}
or this alternative configuration :
post-auth {
if (1) {
update reply {
Tmp-String-0 := &User-Name
}
update {
&outer.session-state: += &reply:
}
}
...
}
as it says in the comments of the mods-enabled/eap file "If you need to
send a reply attribute in the outer session, the ONLY safe way is to set
"use_tunneled_reply = yes", and then update the inner-tunnel reply."
- in sites-enabled/default
post-auth {
inner_outer
}
with inner_outer defined in mods-enabled/linelog file :
linelog inner_outer {
destination = files
filename = ${logdir}/inner_outer.log
format = "Packet-Type=%{%{reply:Packet-Type}:-default}
Outer-User=%{User-Name}
Inner-User=%{%{session-state:Tmp-String-0}:-unknown}"
}
The problem is that sometimes I get Packet-Type=Access-Accept
Outer-User=anonymous at xxxx.fr Inner-User=unknown
I don't understand why.
Is it true that the session state may not be restored correctly to the
last outer packet in certain cases such as:
- TLS session resumption
- specific fragmentation
- specific timing
- Windows fast reconnect
Is this an architectural limitation in version 3.x?
The only truly reliable method I've found is to log the inner identity
in `inner-tunnel` and the outer identity in `default`, and to correlate
via Calling-Station-Id + Event-Timestamp
Is this the only method ?
If possible, I would also like to be able to construct
`reply.User-Name=sam at toto.fr` from `request.User-Name=anonymous at toto.fr`
+ `inner.User-Name=sam`
Could you please help me?
Best regards,
--
Samuel
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