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Radius w/ MySQL?

Posted by Cliff on from the looking-for-better-reliability dept.

nightrav asks: "I'm one of the systems administrators at a small ISP (about 20k customers) and we're currently looking on moving to a different Radius solution. Currently we are using Merit with LDAP which is proving to be extremely slow and causes a great deal of authentication issues if a Total Control chassis reboots or experiences some other problem that causes it to dump its users. We would like to use some sort of Radius/MySQL solution for authentication and accounting and were wondering what solutions the Slashdot community would recommend."

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  1. LDAP is awful by 0x0d0a · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Anything except LDAP.

    When it comes to performance, LDAP is a bad protocol, and OpenLDAP is an even worse implementation.

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  2. FreeRadius + MySQL by UuCon · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Freeradius comes with a SQL module to do authentication and accounting through MySQL, PgSQL, etc. My team uses it quite a lot at my place of employment...we ended up using it to replace a SafeWord installation and everybody has been very happy with it.

    See Here for more info on the SQL module.

    We also ended up using phpMyAdmin to administrate the adding/removing of users, groups, & other attributes.

    ryanc