Please explain or sample with attributes and vendor attributes

[johanteekens]

I've been fiddling around with this project and it seem to work perfectly fine for what I tried. My compliments. I just don't understand how to include [/ attributes /] and [/ vendor attributes /] in my server.

Could you please, please elaborate on this or maybe update your example code?

[skibz]

hi @johanteekens thanks for opening the issue, i will whip something up as soon as possible!

[skibz]

@johanteekens the best place to refer to is here (the library supporting tephra) -- their examples show instances of the way attributes and vendor specific attributes are declared in packet encoding functions.

with that in mind, some things to take note of:

• tephra has a deficiency in the way it handles vendor specific attributes (it is unable to encode attributes from more than one vendor)
• when specifying a vendor specific attribute in tephra, you don't specify the vendor id every time you encode a packet as it is specified once when initialising your tephra instance (this is a part of the deficiency mentioned above) example:

  return accept(
  [ // attributes
  ['attr-1', 'val-1'],
  ['attr-2', 'val-2']
  ],
  [ // vendor attributes
  ['vendor-attr-1', 'vendor-val-1'],
  ['vendor-attr-2', 'vendor-val-2']
  ],
  console.log
  )

• if you're just specifying standard radius attributes into a packet, then it's the same as node-radius, but you still need to specify an empty vendor attributes array, example:

  return accept(
  [ // attributes
  ['attr-1', 'val-1'],
  ['attr-2', 'val-2']
  ],
  [ // vendor attributes
  ],
  console.log
  )

• the same goes for not specifying any attributes: just use empty arrays for those arguments. this is a pain point in the tool, and i've been planning to make this nicer for a while (with default arg values, or something like that)

please don't hesitate to get in contact again if this explanation doesn't suffice!

[johanteekens]

Awesome, problem solved. works perfectly. I'm actually adding an office 365 authentication module, allowing users to authenticate with office 365 credentials and passing their ACL to the network devices. I just got the thing going using using this module.

[skibz]

happy to help!