pyrad is an implementation of a RADIUS client as described in RFC2138. It takes care of all the details like building RADIUS packets, sending them and decoding responses.

Here is an example of doing a authentication request:

from pyrad.client import Client from pyrad.dictionary import Dictionary

srv=Client("radius.my.domain") srv.secret="radius secret" srv.dict=Dictionary("/etc/radb/dictionary")

req=srv.CreatePacket() req.code=pyrad.client.AccessRequest req["User-Name"]="wichert" req["User-Password"]="password" req["NAS-Identifier"]="localhost"

reply=srv.SendPacket(req) if reply.code==pyrad.client.AccessAccept: print "access accepted" else: print "access denied"

print "Attributes returned by server:" for i in reply.keys(): print "%s: %s" % (i, reply[i])

REQUIREMENTS & INSTALLATION ---------------------------

pyrad requires Python 2.0 or later.

AUTHOR, COPYRIGHT, AVAILABILITY -------------------------------

pyrad was written by Wichert Akkerman wichert@deephackmode.org

The current version and documentation can be found at its homepage:

http://www.wiggy.net/code/pyrad/

Copyright 2002 Wichert Akkerman. All rights reserved. pyrad is distributed under the BSD license. Please see the source archive for the full license text.