[OpenSER-Users] Authentication credentials cache

[Klaus Darilion]

Iñaki Baz Castillo schrieb:
> El Lunes, 18 de Febrero de 2008, Juha Heinanen escribió:
>> Bogdan-Andrei Iancu writes:
>>  > Credential caching is not support - for any of the backends (radius or
>>  > sql).  As far as I know, there are no plans for caching yet... Mainly
>>  > because the fetching the passwd from DB is combined in a single query
>>  > with caller profile fetching - see the "load_credentials" module param
>>  > in auth_db module.
>>
>> yes, when i radius authenticate a user, the reply contains lots of user
>> attributes as reply items.  these attributes can change any time and
>> thus cannot be cached.
> 
> In fact I think that the only caching making sense would be directly in the 
> final backend (DB, Radius, LDAP..).

FYI: I think the original question refers to IMS, where the S-CSCF can 
retrieve pre-calculated nonces and responses from the diameter server to 
avoid diameter requests for each authentication.

klaus