Re: Radiusd will try to open UDP listen, even without auth{} or acct{} block

Sergey Poznyakoff <[email protected]> Fri, 07 Nov 2003 10:08:04 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gnu.radius.bugs
Organization Farlep-Internet
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hi Maurice,

> I am trying to build an accounting-only gnu-radius server. For doing so,
> I created a configuration file without an "auth{ ... }" block in it.
> This should work, but I see that the radiusd will on startup try to
> open the default UDP radius authentication port.

Yes, so far there was no possibility to disable listening on a
particular port.

> Solution:
> I think the attached patch will fix this.

Thanks, that's an interesting proposal. However, I'd prefer to let the
user explicitely disable unwanted ports by speciying `listen no'. That
seems to be less error prone. The corresponding mods have been added to
the CVS repository.


Thank you,

Sergey