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Compilation Error? The Oracle client being installed (11g R2 in my setup), Freeradius doesn’t seem to find Oracle headers. I get the following error message: Error compiling Oracle/Freeradius configure: WARNING: oracle headers not found. Use –with-oracle-home-dir=<path>. configure: WARNING: silently not building rlm_sql_oracle. configure: WARNING: FAILURE: rlm_sql_oracle requires: oci.h.   Specifying the path to –with-oracle-home-dir doesn’t […]

Tags: compile, Freeradius, Oracle

A lot of networks use LDAP or NIS to authenticate users on Linux servers and any Unix flavours. There is no policy control by default and all users in the central LDAP database have access to all servers.Access can be restricted to some of the accounts adding them into the default passwd file if the […]

Tags: AIX, Authentication, ldap, linux, NIS, solaris, unix

It is generally good practice to respect the two following rules when backing up databases. The backup has to be: consistent fast Consistency is easily achieved putting a read lock on all tables beforehand. However, this isn’t always applied, and WILL definitely lead to a database integrity problem when restoring.Once a lock has been set […]

Tags: backup, linux, LVM, Mysql

This is related to Freeradius software but can be applied to any application that needs to encrypt Mysql traffic. Freeradius is compliant to Radius protocol characteristics, which give ability to accomplish various actions, such as authenticate users. Number of caveats have been found, not related to the software but to the protocol. Joshua Hill from […]

Tags: Database, Encryption, Freeradius, Mysql, Openssl, performance, radius, SSL

We are not trying to build a full comparative of Mysql and Postgresql in this article. This subject has been discussed many times and everyone has his own opinion on this. Some directions may be given and only a few critirias will be analysed to be used with Freeradius. Criteria If we check what’s already […]

Tags: Database, Freeradius, Mysql, performance, Postgresql, radius