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This optional parameter allows you to use additional ADSI user information as RADIUS check or reply items. This is most useful when you define new user attributes in your Active Directory schema. It is beyond the scope of this document to describe how to add new attributes to an Active Directory schema.
The general format is
AuthAttrDef adsiname,radiusattr,type
  • adsiname is the name of an attribute in your Active Directory User schema. The value of that attribute will be fetched using ADSI during authentication.
  • radiusattr is the name of the RADIUS attribute that the adsiname will be converted to. check or reply item. The special radiusattr ‘GENERIC’ indicates that it is a list of comma separated attribute=value pairs, similar to ReplyAttr or CheckAttr.
  • type specifies whether to use the value as a check or reply item. type may be check, reply or request. If type is “request” the value is saved in the current request, from where it can be later collected with a special formatting macro like: %{attributename}.
For example,
AuthAttrDef address,Framed-IP-Address,reply
would get an attribute called ’address’ from the ADSI user record, and put it into Framed-IP-Address attribute in the RADIUS reply. If address was not defined in your schema, or there was no value defined for the user being authenticated, then Framed-IPAddress would not be set in the reply.
Multi-valued AD attributes can be used as check items, which results in Radiator passing the authentication if one of the multiple items matches. For example if you have this in your AuthBy ADSI:
AuthAttrDef otherHomePhone,Calling-Station-Id,check
and multiple entries in Home, ‘Other....’ tab of the Telephones tab. Then Radiator will let the user log in if they call from any one of the Other Home Phone numbers.