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    • S
      scotia
      last edited by

      Hi,

      I am running FreeRadius with a MySQL backend and am trying to configure pfSense GUI authentication.  When I test the authentication it works fine, but the resulting display shows no group membership.  I have added the admins group to my MySQL usergroup database but I believe Radius is not returning the right attribute.

      What Radius attribute does pfSense expect to list the user group list?

      Thanks,
      Scott

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      • jimpJ
        jimp Rebel Alliance Developer Netgate
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        It expects a semicolon-separated list to be returned in the "Class" reply attribute.

        Like this:

        Class := "admins;VPNUsers"
        

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          scotia
          last edited by

          Many thanks for that.  Problem solved.

          I did hunt around for an answer and couldn't find one - is this documented?  If not, can I update something to help others?

          Regards,
          Scott

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          • jimpJ
            jimp Rebel Alliance Developer Netgate
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            It's in a few places. The book, a few of the release notes around when the release was added… I think it's in the freeradius docs somewhere.

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              scotia
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              I must have old books.  Neither my Packt FreeRadius book (2011) or pfSense -TDG (2009) mentions the Class attribute.  I'll check the release notes - perhaps the feature was added after those books were published.

              Do regular users have write access to the Wiki?  I'm happy to create a page.

              Thanks,
              Scott

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              • jimpJ
                jimp Rebel Alliance Developer Netgate
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                Correct. It was after both of those books. It is in the current book you can get via pfSense Gold.

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