AUTH_AAA module
Admin Guide
Section titled “Admin Guide”Overview
Section titled “Overview”This module contains functions that are used to perform authentication using an AAA server. Basically the proxy will pass along the credentials to the AAA server which will in turn send a reply containing result of the authentication. So basically the whole authentication is done in the AAA server. Before sending the request to the AAA server we perform some sanity checks over the credentials to make sure that only well formed credentials will get to the server. We have implemented AAA authentication according to draft-sterman-aaa-sip-00.
Additional Credentials
Section titled “Additional Credentials”When performing authentication, the AAA server may include in the response additional credentials. This scheme is very useful in fetching additional user information from the AAA server without making extra queries.
The additional credentials are embedded in the AAA reply as AVPs “SIP-AVP”. The syntax of the value is:
- value = SIP_AVP_NAME SIP_AVP_VALUE
- SIP_AVP_NAME = STRING_NAME | ’#‘ID_NUMBER
- SIP_AVP_VALUE = ’:‘STRING_VALUE | ’#‘NUMBER_VALUE
All additional credentials will be stored as OpenSIPS AVPs (SIP_AVP_NAME = SIP_AVP_VALUE).
The RPID value may be fetch via this mechanism.
...."email:joe@yahoo.com" - STRING NAME AVP (email) with STRING VALUE (joe@yahoo.com)"#14:joe@yahoo.com" - ID AVP (14) with STRING VALUE (joe@yahoo.com)"age#28" - STRING NAME AVP (age) with INTEGER VALUE (28)"#14#28" - ID AVP (14) with INTEGER VALUE (28)....Dependencies
Section titled “Dependencies”OpenSIPS Modules
Section titled “OpenSIPS Modules”The module depends on the following modules (in the other words the listed modules must be loaded before this module):
- auth — Generic authentication functions
- an aaa implementing module — for example aaa_radius
External Libraries or Applications
Section titled “External Libraries or Applications”This module does not depend on any external library.
Exported Parameters
Section titled “Exported Parameters”aaa_url (string)
Section titled “aaa_url (string)”This is the url representing the AAA protocol used and the location of the configuration file of this protocol.
The syntax for the url is the following: “name_of_the_aaa_protocol_used:path_of_the_configuration_file”
modparam("auth_aaa", "aaa_url", "radius:/etc/radiusclient-ng/radiusclient.conf")service_type (integer)
Section titled “service_type (integer)”This is the value of the Service-Type aaa attribute to be used. The default should be fine for most people. See your aaa client include files for numbers to be put in this parameter if you need to change it.
Default value is “15”.
modparam("auth_aaa", "service_type", 15)use_ruri_flag (string/integer)
Section titled “use_ruri_flag (string/integer)”When this parameter is set to the value other than “NULL” and the request being authenticated has flag with matching number set via setflag() function, use Request URI instead of uri parameter value from the Authorization / Proxy-Authorization header field to perform AAA authentication. This is intended to provide workaround for misbehaving NAT / routers / ALGs that alter request in the transit, breaking authentication. At the time of this writing, certain versions of Linksys WRT54GL are known to do that.
Default value is “NULL” (not set).
modparam("auth_aaa", "use_ruri_flag", "USE_RURI_FLAG")Exported Functions
Section titled “Exported Functions”aaa_www_authorize(realm[, uri_user])
Section titled “aaa_www_authorize(realm[, uri_user])”The function verifies credentials according to
RFC2617. If
the credentials are verified successfully then the function will
succeed and mark the credentials as authorized (marked credentials can
be later used by some other functions). If the function was unable to
verify the credentials for some reason then it will fail and
the script should call
www_challenge
which will challenge the user again.
Negative codes may be interpreted as follows:
- -5 (generic error) - some generic error occurred and no reply was sent out;
- -4 (no credentials) - credentials were not found in request;
- -3 (stale nonce) - stale nonce;
This function will, in fact, perform sanity checks over the received credentials and then pass them along to the aaa server which will verify the credentials and return whether they are valid or not.
Meaning of the parameter is as follows:
- realm - Realm is a opaque string that the user agent should present to the user so he can decide what username and password to use. Usually this is domain of the host the server is running on. If an empty string "" is used then the server will generate it from the request. In case of REGISTER requests To header field domain will be used (because this header field represents a user being registered), for all other messages From header field domain will be used. The string may contain pseudo variables.
- uri_user - Uri_user is an optional pseudo variable parameter whose value, if present, will be given to Radius server as value of SIP-URI-User check item. If uri_user pseudo variable parameter is not present, the server will generate SIP-URI-User check item value from user part of To URI.
This function can be used from REQUEST_ROUTE.
...if (!aaa_www_authorize("siphub.net")) { www_challenge("siphub.net", "1");};...aaa_proxy_authorize(realm [, uri_user])
Section titled “aaa_proxy_authorize(realm [, uri_user])”The function verifies credentials according to
RFC2617. If
the credentials are verified successfully then the function will
succeed and mark the credentials as authorized (marked credentials can
be later used by some other functions). If the function was unable to
verify the credentials for some reason then it will fail and the script
should call proxy_challenge which
will challenge the user again. For more about the negative return
codes, see the above function.
This function will, in fact, perform sanity checks over the received credentials and then pass them along to the aaa server which will verify the credentials and return whether they are valid or not.
Meaning of the parameters is as follows:
- realm - Realm is a opaque string that the user agent should present to the user so he can decide what username and password to use. This is usually one of the domains the proxy is responsible for. If an empty string "" is used then the server will generate realm from host part of From header field URI. The string may contain pseudo variables.
- uri_user - Uri_user is an optional pseudo variable parameter whose value, if present, will be given to Radius server as value of SIP-URI-User check item. If uri_user pseudo variable parameter is not present, the server will generate SIP-URI-User check item value from user part of From URI.
This function can be used from REQUEST_ROUTE.
...if (!aaa_proxy_authorize("")) { # Realm and URI user will be autogenerated proxy_challenge("", "1");};...if (!aaa_proxy_authorize("$pd", "$pU")) { # Realm and URI user are taken proxy_challenge("$pd", "1"); # from P-Preferred-Identity}; # header field...Contributors
Section titled “Contributors”By Commit Statistics
Section titled “By Commit Statistics”Top contributors by DevScore(1), authored commits(2) and lines added/removed(3)
| # | Name | DevScore | Commits | Lines++ | Lines— |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | Jan Janak (@janakj) | 89 | 24 | 3302 | 2190 |
| 2. | Irina-Maria Stanescu | 51 | 10 | 1517 | 1631 |
| 3. | Bogdan-Andrei Iancu (@bogdan-iancu) | 36 | 26 | 441 | 308 |
| 4. | Daniel-Constantin Mierla (@miconda) | 15 | 13 | 67 | 55 |
| 5. | Maksym Sobolyev (@sobomax) | 11 | 6 | 170 | 174 |
| 6. | Juha Heinanen (@juha-h) | 9 | 5 | 194 | 105 |
| 7. | Stefan Darius (@dariusstefan) | 9 | 4 | 350 | 79 |
| 8. | Andrei Pelinescu-Onciul | 7 | 5 | 11 | 5 |
| 9. | Razvan Crainea (@razvancrainea) | 5 | 3 | 5 | 6 |
| 10. | Jiri Kuthan (@jiriatipteldotorg) | 4 | 2 | 3 | 1 |
All remaining contributors: Henning Westerholt (@henningw), Ancuta Onofrei, Anatoly Pidruchny, Liviu Chircu (@liviuchircu), Peter Nixon, Konstantin Bokarius, Edson Gellert Schubert.
(1) DevScore = author_commits + author_lines_added / (project_lines_added / project_commits) + author_lines_deleted / (project_lines_deleted / project_commits)
(2) including any documentation-related commits, excluding merge commits
(3) ignoring whitespace edits, renamed files and auto-generated files
By Commit Activity
Section titled “By Commit Activity”| # | Name | Commit Activity |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | Stefan Darius (@dariusstefan) | Jun 2026 - Jul 2026 |
| 2. | Razvan Crainea (@razvancrainea) | Feb 2012 - Jun 2026 |
| 3. | Bogdan-Andrei Iancu (@bogdan-iancu) | Jun 2005 - Jan 2013 |
| 4. | Liviu Chircu (@liviuchircu) | Jan 2013 - Jan 2013 |
| 5. | Irina-Maria Stanescu | Aug 2009 - Apr 2010 |
| 6. | Daniel-Constantin Mierla (@miconda) | Oct 2005 - Mar 2008 |
| 7. | Konstantin Bokarius | Mar 2008 - Mar 2008 |
| 8. | Edson Gellert Schubert | Feb 2008 - Feb 2008 |
| 9. | Maksym Sobolyev (@sobomax) | Dec 2003 - Feb 2008 |
| 10. | Juha Heinanen (@juha-h) | May 2003 - Dec 2007 |
All remaining contributors: Henning Westerholt (@henningw), Ancuta Onofrei, Anatoly Pidruchny, Peter Nixon, Jan Janak (@janakj), Andrei Pelinescu-Onciul, Jiri Kuthan (@jiriatipteldotorg).
(1) including any documentation-related commits, excluding merge commits
Documentation
Section titled “Documentation”Contributors
Section titled “Contributors”Last edited by: Razvan Crainea (@razvancrainea), Bogdan-Andrei Iancu (@bogdan-iancu), Liviu Chircu (@liviuchircu), Irina-Maria Stanescu, Daniel-Constantin Mierla (@miconda), Konstantin Bokarius, Edson Gellert Schubert, Maksym Sobolyev (@sobomax), Henning Westerholt (@henningw), Anatoly Pidruchny, Juha Heinanen (@juha-h), Jan Janak (@janakj).
License
Section titled “License”All documentation files (i.e. .md extension) are licensed under the Creative Common License 4.0