From: dusty <dusty.doris@...>
Date: 2007-10-27T06:20:02+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby Radius Dictionary

On Oct 26, 12:25 am, Aby azid Abu bakar <aby_a...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hie,
>
> Im trying to communicate with radius server using example file from
> ruby-radius-0.9.9 and encountered with this error
>
> "/usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/radius/dictionary.rb:294:in
> `vsattr_numtype': undefined method `[]' for nil:NilClass (NoMethodError)
>         from /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/radius/packet.rb:145:in
> `unpack'
>         from radiusclient.rb:50"
>
> Can anyone help.
>
> Thanks,
> Aby Azid
> --
> Posted viahttp://www.ruby-forum.com/.

I'm using that library, I just ran a test and that file worked fine
for me.

I am using the auth.rb file to simply check for authorization.  It
works well for me.

First, I had to change this line in auth.rb

    attr_reader :@packet
to
    attr_reader :packet

Here is the class I made for checking authentication.

class RadiusUtils

  def initialize(hostname,secret)
    @hostname, @secret = hostname, secret
    @dictionary = "/some/path/to/dictionary"
  end

  def authenticate(username,password,nasip=nil,timeout=nil)
    nasip = nasip || "127.0.0.1"
    timeout = timeout || 5
    rad = Radius::Auth.new(@dictionary,@hostname,nasip,timeout)
    rad.check_passwd(username,password,@secret)
  end

end

radius = RadiusUtils.new("x.x.x.x","secret")
radius.authenticate("username","password")


If you are only trying to authenticate to radius, perhaps that will
work for you.