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Ascend's radius daemon linked with the dbm library appearantly has
a locking problem due to an exclusive read lock when accessing the dbm file.
At least with Linux and GNU dbm this prevents quasi-simultaneous queries
which lead to "Couldn't open /etc/raddb/users for reading..." errors.

To overcome this problem I have patched radiusd to use the Berkeley db
library instead of dbm. Morever, db is faster than dbm.

Anyone who likes to test this may download the patch at:
<A HREF="ftp://ftp.iks-jena.de/pub/mitarb/erik/admin/radius-ascend.diff.971110.gz">ftp://ftp.iks-jena.de/pub/mitarb/erik/admin/radius-ascend.diff.971110.gz</A> 

This patch is against radius-970814.tar.gz.
Simply by typing 'make db' you get a radiusd linked with libdb and the
program 'builddb' to create the file users.db.

Bug reports and comments are welcome.


Have fun,
Erik

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