Datastore Modules

Datastore modules store data. In most cases, they are databases. We use the term "datastore" to mean that some of the storage methods are not traditional databases, but they do still store data.

For example, the files module implements the widely-used RADIUS users file format. It is not a database, but it can store thousands or millions of user credentials.

The available Datastore modules are:

Cache - cache data to local disk, memcached, or redis
- Cache EAP - example of caching EAP sessions
- Cache TLS Session - example of caching TLS sessions
Client - read client definitions dynamically from text files
CSV - read data from a CSV file
etc_group - read data from /etc/group, or similarly formatted files
Files - read data from the users file.
Users File Format - format of the users file
LDAP - connect to an LDAP server
OpenDirectory - connect to an OpenDirectory server
Passwd - read data from /etc/passwd, or similarly formatted files
- Mac2IP - example of using the passwd module to lookup up IP address by MAC address
- Mac2Vlan - example of using the passwd module to lookup up VLAN by MAC address
- SMBPasswd - read data from /etc/smbpasswd
Redis - connect to a Redis server
- Redis IP Pool - manages IP pools in Redis
- REDISWho - manages online users in Redis
Rest - connect to a REST server
SQL - connect to an SQL server
- Counter - track user activity (time / bandwidth) in SQL
- IP-Pool - manages IP pools in SQL
- Redundant - example of using redundant connections to an SQL sercer
Unix - read passwords from getpwent()