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List:       freeradius-users
Subject:    Re: allow WLAN-access in certain offices only
From:       Alan DeKok <aland () deployingradius ! com>
Date:       2021-04-28 15:18:47
Message-ID: 8D291BE3-1D7C-4C65-A1F9-1978A5189F4A () deployingradius ! com
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On Apr 28, 2021, at 3:31 AM, radius.pkoch@dfgh.net wrote:
> thanks very much again for your last reply. It contained almost everyhing I needed \
> to solve my problem.

  That's good.

> I feel I must emphazise that FreeRadius is free software at its best: Very easy \
> installation. Whatever a Radius Server might be able to do - FreeRadius can do it. \
> If one needs 100% precice information about what's going on, the source code will \
> show you. It even has functionality that I did not expect. For example beeing a \
> DHCP-server that reads its configuration data dynamically from an SQL database. Or \
> OTP-support via a an easy to use interface. With all that functionality I would not \
> wonder if FreeRadius-configuration was very time-consuming. But it isn't and the \
> default configration supports most use cases out of the box. Very impressive!

  Thanks.

> And - most remarkable - your are giving excellent free (in the sense of free beer) \
> support on this mailing lists. Even to people like me that have crude requirements. \
> Be assured that I have read all the informationen you mentioned (including \
> compatibility.html and every single line of dozens of radiusd -X outputs) and they \
> were very helpful. 
> I even like the tone on this list and the information about it on the registration \
> page.

  We try to be polite, but straightforward.

> As the subject of this thread is "allow WLAN-access in certain offices only" and \
> this problem is already solved by clever using he SQL-capabilities of FreeRadius, I \
> will explain the way I found to support our OTP-token in a new thread. 
> You pointed out that using location-specific and time-specific passwords give a \
> very bad experience and that forcing users to use OTP-token is a terrible idea. If \
> you or anybody else is interested to know why I believe that this nevertheless \
> improves our situation - just let me know. That might give an interesting \
> discussion. I'm just not sure wether you like to have such discussions on the \
> FreeRadius mailing list.

  Sure.  I'd be interested in knowing what the user experience is like.

> Keep the good work going

  Thanks.

  Alan DeKok.


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