[Devel] [ openser-Patches-1631052 ] Use FreeRADIUS Client instead of radiusclient-ng

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Patches item #1631052, was opened at 2007-01-09 03:38
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Submitted By: Peter Nixon (peternixon)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: Use FreeRADIUS Client instead of radiusclient-ng

Initial Comment:
Here are patches for 1.1.0 and cvs head to build all radius code against FreeRADIUS Client instead of radiusclient-ng. Please see
http://wiki.freeradius.org/Radiusclient

Prebuilt freeradius-client rpms are at:
http://software.opensuse.org/download/network:/aaa/

Patched versions of openser using FreeRADIUS Client are available as rpms from: http://software.opensuse.org/download/server:/telephony/


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>Comment By: Peter Nixon (peternixon)
Date: 2007-01-09 18:37

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At present it could be a configure/compile time option as there is no
logic difference between the two libraries. The whole point of this work
though is to make OpenSER's RADIUS support work according to RFC (The
existing support doesn't). This will require changes both in the radius
modules in openser and additional code in freeradius-client. At that point
the only sane way to maintain support for radiusclient-ng will be to keep 2
copies of the SER modules. (Think of when openser forked from SER.
Initially the code was the same, but the whole goal of the fork is to add
new functionality so the code slowly diverges). If the radiusclient-ng
folk want to take our changes and incorporate back into their code they
are of course more than welcome to.

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Comment By: Klaus Darilion (klaus_darilion)
Date: 2007-01-09 13:44

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Is it possible to make it configurable which client radius library to use
(e.g. default=radiusclient-ng)?

I think then it is easier to integrate it into openser as many users do
not want to change radius client library when the current one is working
fine.



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Comment By: Peter Nixon (peternixon)
Date: 2007-01-09 13:35

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At the present moment the technical benefit is minimal as there is little
code difference between radiusclient-ng and FreeRADIUS Client. This will
change over the comming months however. One obvious benefit is that the
FreeRADIUS Project has website, wiki and mailing list infrastructure setup
to support users. radiusclient-ng has none of these. As a openSUSE
user/developer I can't comment for other distros, but radiusclient-ng is
not included in SUSE (The older radiusclient is..) and therefore anyway
has to be download from my Network:AAA repository the same as
freeradius-client. FreeRADIUS Server IS included of course in almost all
Linux Distros and I am working on getting freeradius-client included in
(at least) future SUSE distros in place of the unmaintained radiusclient.
My Network:AAA repo contains both radiusclient-ng and freeradius-client
rpms for SUSE 9.3-10.2, Fedora 4-6 and Mandriva. I am not currently
packaging for ubuntu or debian as I dont have any familiarity with deb but
I will try to add them in future to the repo. (Someone else in the
FreeRADIUS project current handles those packages). In any case
radiusclient-ng last made a release on November 7, 2005. The FreeRADIUS
project makes releases every couple of months, and is one of the most
popular radius servers in the world.. A client officially supported and
maintained by us seemed a logical step.
In anycase, no-one is forced to accept these patches. I simply put them
here so that they don't get lost.

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Comment By: Klaus Darilion (klaus_darilion)
Date: 2007-01-09 11:34

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Hi Peter!

What is the advantage of using freeradius client instead of
radiusclient-ng?

Is the freeradius client included in the standard distributions (debian,
redhat ..)

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Comment By: Peter Nixon (peternixon)
Date: 2007-01-09 03:39

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File Added: openser-1.1.0-freeradius-client.patch

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