How to use svc_acct.import

[Ivan Kohler]

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<000601be70e4$c480eab0$42f425cb at immortalnet.immortalnet.com.au>; from A P Blogg on Thu, Mar 18, 1999 at 12:12:25PM +1000

On Thu, Mar 18, 1999 at 12:12:25PM +1000, A P Blogg wrote:
> I worked on it for a while and finally worked out that the USERS file was
> rejected if it contained more than one specification on one line, ie
> "Auth-Type = System, Framed-Protocol = PPP," .. it liked it when I seperated
> that into two lines...

Yes, sorry if I wasn't clear when I said "svc_acct.import doesn't deal
well with... multi-attribute lines".

> 
> But now, I'm getting the following error...
> 
> --
> Unkonwn svcpart at ./svc_acct.import line 201, <PASSWD> chunk 1.
> --
> 
> Any ideas?

You might get this error if you didn't enter valid service part numbers to
one of the initial questions that applies to an account in your files. 
Say, if you just hit return or `0'.

You should be getting a list of service part numbers before each question. 
If you didn't (i.e. if you haven't setup all the items in the
configuration section, including services), then you're doing stuff in the
wrong order.  Go back and setup services.

> 
> (by the way, I really appreciate your help and patience through all my
> confusion, thank you for that.)
> 
> 
> Sincerely,
> 
> A P Blogg
> 
> Administration and Sales
> URL: http://www.immortalnet.com.au
> E-Mail: apblogg at immortalnet.com.au
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ivan Kohler <ivan at sisd.com>
> To: ivan-freeside at sisd.com <ivan-freeside at sisd.com>
> Date: Friday, March 19, 1999 2:47 AM
> Subject: Re: How to use svc_acct.import
> 
> 
> >On Thu, Mar 18, 1999 at 11:35:32AM +1000, A P Blogg wrote:
> >> The error I'm getting is such as
> >>
> >> --
> >> 1Unexpected line in users.import:
> >>
> #---------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >> at ./svc_acct.import line 128, <USERS> chunk 2.
> >> --
> >>
> >> And that line is a comment within the /etc/raddb/users file..
> >>
> >> If I take the comments out, it reads passed the username and Password and
> >> chucks the sort of error out while reading "Auth-TYPE = ... blah blah" ..
> >>
> >> That specific enough?
> >
> >The first part was.  The second part wasn't.
> >
> >It is *ALWAYS* better to report the actual error.  "the sort of error"
> >does me no good.
> >
> >I'm guessing that your second error is "2Unexpected line"... instead of
> >"1Unexpected line"...  but unless you report the *EXACT* error message,
> >that's just what it is, a guess.
> >
> >I thought the list subscription message ("report the exact error message")
> >was clear on this point.  If anyone could suggest a better message I'll
> >be happy to change it, to avoid this sort of noise on the list.
> >
> >It looks like svc_acct.import doesn't deal well with comments and
> >multi-attribute lines.  You could massage your data before feeding it to
> >svc_acct.import, or fix svc_acct.import to deal with these things.
> >
> >If you do the latter, I'd appriciate if you could contribute the changes
> >back into the distibution.
> >
> >I'll try to take a look at it at some point, but I've been very busy
> >latley.
> >
> >
> >
> >>
> >> Sincerely,
> >>
> >> A P Blogg
> >>
> >> Administration and Sales
> >> URL: http://www.immortalnet.com.au
> >> E-Mail: apblogg at immortalnet.com.au
> >>
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: Ivan Kohler <ivan at sisd.com>
> >> To: ivan-freeside at sisd.com <ivan-freeside at sisd.com>
> >> Date: Friday, March 19, 1999 2:17 AM
> >> Subject: Re: How to use svc_acct.import
> >>
> >>
> >> >On Thu, Mar 18, 1999 at 11:25:50AM +1000, A P Blogg wrote:
> >> >> svc_acct.import doesn't like my radius USERS file..
> >> >
> >> >It would certainly help if you could be more specific.
> >> >
> >> >> my typical users file looks something like this..
> >> >>
> >> >> boffey  Password = "secret"
> >> >>         Auth-Type = System, Framed-Protocol = PPP,
> >> >>         Service-Type = Framed-User,
> >> >>         Framed-Protocol = PPP,
> >> >>         Framed-MTU = 1500,
> >> >>         Session-Timeout = 21600,
> >> >>         Idle-Timeout = 900,
> >> >>         Acct-Session-Time = 1,
> >> >>         Acct-Input-Octets = 1,
> >> >>         Acct-Output-Octets = 1,
> >> >>         LOGINS = 1
> >> >>
> >> >> ---
> >> >>
> >> >> Anything wierdly different about my config that can't be handled?
> >> >
> >> >Probably not.  Whether or not you'll get free hand-holding is a
> different
> >> >question, though (I won't, and most everyone else capable has long since
> >> >unsubscribed from the list).
> >> >
> >> >--
> >> >Ivan Kohler <ivan at sisd.com> - finger for PGP key - <moc.dsis at navi>
> Relhok
> >> Navi
> >> >Open-source billing and administration for ISPs -
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> >> >20 4,16 * * * saytime # please don't be surprised if you find me
> dreaming
> >> too
> >>
> >
> >--
> >Ivan Kohler <ivan at sisd.com> - finger for PGP key - <moc.dsis at navi> Relhok
> Navi
> >Open-source billing and administration for ISPs -
> http://www.sisd.com/freeside
> >20 4,16 * * * saytime # please don't be surprised if you find me dreaming
> too
> 

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Ivan Kohler <ivan at sisd.com> - finger for PGP key - <moc.dsis at navi> Relhok Navi
Open-source billing and administration for ISPs - http://www.sisd.com/freeside
20 4,16 * * * saytime # please don't be surprised if you find me dreaming too