# RADIUS auth constantly throwing requests for admin user.

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/radius-auth-constantly-throwing-requests-for-admin-user/34501>\
**Category:** AWX Project\
**Tags:** awx\
**Created:** [January 24, 2021, 2:52pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/radius-auth-constantly-throwing-requests-for-admin-user/34501 "2021-01-24T14:52:51Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![GoMatrix\_Hosting](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/cab0a1/32.png) [@GoMatrix\_Hosting](https://forum.ansible.com/u/GoMatrix_Hosting)\
**Post date:** [January 24, 2021, 2:52pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/radius-auth-constantly-throwing-requests-for-admin-user/34501/1 "2021-01-24T14:52:51Z")

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Configured RADIUS login for enterprise users. Works okay but we notices AWX is constantly trying to auth the admin user against the radius server?

This is unexpected since admin is a ‘normal user’ and shouldn’t be authorising against the Radius server, especially when i’m not even attempting to login as admin user. :S

Thanks for reading!

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**Author:** ![GoMatrix\_Hosting](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/cab0a1/32.png) [@GoMatrix\_Hosting](https://forum.ansible.com/u/GoMatrix_Hosting)\
**Post date:** [February 4, 2021, 11:55am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/radius-auth-constantly-throwing-requests-for-admin-user/34501/2 "2021-02-04T11:55:25Z")

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Here’s the relevant log from the awx\_web container, still happens every minute with version 17.0.1:

```auto

ERROR:root:RADIUS timeout occurred contacting 172.17.0.1:1812

```

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**Author:** ![GoMatrix\_Hosting](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/cab0a1/32.png) [@GoMatrix\_Hosting](https://forum.ansible.com/u/GoMatrix_Hosting)\
**Post date:** [February 7, 2021, 6:02am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/radius-auth-constantly-throwing-requests-for-admin-user/34501/3 "2021-02-07T06:02:54Z")

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This seems like a security bug, since it’s constantly throwing the admin password of the AWX system to whatever Radius is authorizing against. :S

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**Author:** ![GoMatrix\_Hosting](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/cab0a1/32.png) [@GoMatrix\_Hosting](https://forum.ansible.com/u/GoMatrix_Hosting)\
**Post date:** [February 8, 2021, 3:44am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/radius-auth-constantly-throwing-requests-for-admin-user/34501/4 "2021-02-08T03:44:22Z")

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Actually the password of admin user is hashed so it’s not too bad.

The solution i used in the end was i configured the Oauth script the Radius server calls so it drops requests for ‘admin’ user.