Important

The development of django-freeradius has moved to openwisp-radius, we highly suggest users and readers of this documentation to migrate or use the more up to date documentation of openwisp-radius.

Generating users

Many a times, a network admin might need to generate temporary users for events etc. This feature can be used for generating users by specifying a prefix and the number of users to be generated. There are many features included in it such as:

• Generating users in batches: all of the users of a particular prefix would be stored in batches and can be retrieved/ deleted easily using the batch functions.
• Set an expiration date: Expiration date can be set for a batch after which the users would not able to authenticate to the RADIUS Server.
• PDF: Get the usernames and passwords generated outputted into a PDF.

This can be accomplished from both the admin interface and the management command.

prefix_add_users

This command generates users whose usernames start with a particular prefix. Usage is as shown below.

./manage.py prefix_add_users --name <name_of_batch> \
                             --prefix <prefix> \
                             --n <number_of_users>
                             --expiration <expiration_date> \
                             --password-length <password_length>

Note that the expiration and password-length are optional parameters which default to never and 8 respectively.

Adding from admin inteface

At the url /admin/django_freeradius/radiusbatch/add one can directly generate users using the prefix and the number of users. A PDF can be downloaded immediately after the users have been generated.