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Lance Julander wrote:
Re: Online Signup Testing
From: Shawn Hogan
Date: Thursday, January 7, 1999
Time: 12:56:40 pm
>You must be *very* tired because I read the whole thing again and
>it makes perfect sense ;-)
>
>Ok, let me start again from a different angle and hopefully this
>will make more sense. If not, I may have to call you to explain it.
>
>We don't use telescript to automatically add or remove a
>customer's record from RADIUS. Instead, we have Optigold do a
>complete dump to a RADIUS file each day. If the customer is not
>in Optigold, or they are expired, their records won't be in the
>RADIUS dump and they won't be able to login. So far we've been
>doing the RADIUS dumps manually because of some confusion about
>how Optigold works.
>
>Ok, now having established that. We send our install people out
>to physically visit the customer's location to set up their
>machines. Our install people logon to the Internet from the
>customer's machine (using an existing account) and then using a
>web page script, add the new customer's username and password to
>the RADIUS file.
>
>At this point, the customer is in our RADIUS file and can login
>to our system fine. However, they have not been entered into
>Optigold (that usually happens the next day when the installer
>brings the paperwork back to the office).
>
>So, if we were to have Optigold do our daily RADIUS dump right
>now, that new customer that was just signed up would not be in
>Optigold yet. The new RADIUS file would be created and the new
>customer would no longer be able to login (they were in RADIUS
>moments ago, but they won't be in the new RADIUS dump from Optigold).
Hmmmm... sort of makes sense... but I still don't understand the
question...
Maybe it's just a statement... :-)
If so, yes... you are right, they wouldn't be in the Optigold ISP dump
becuase they weren't IN Optigold ISP yet. {shrug}
- Shawn
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Shawn D. Hogan
President, Data Point Solutions
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