skydiablo / skyradius
The first (known to me) RADIUS server which was implemented natively in PHP!
Requires
- php: >=8.1
- react/async: ^4.3
- react/cache: ^1.2
- react/datagram: ^1.9
- skydiablo/sky-ttl-list: @dev
Requires (Dev)
- phpunit/phpunit: ^12.0
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Last update: 2026-05-18 12:17:08 UTC
README
The first (known to me) RADIUS server which was implemented natively in PHP! Based on the incredible possibilities of ReactPHP I was able to write this library. Currently RFC2865, RFC2866, RFC2868 + RFC2869 are implemented, if you want to contribute, you may follow up with RFC2867 (I'm always happy about PRs ;) ).
Example
Enter ./Example/ directory:
cd ./Example/
Load vendor Libs:
composer install
Install radclient from freeRADIUS-Project:
sudo apt install freeradius-utils
Run SkyDiablo/SkyRadius Example-Server:
php radius.php
Run the radclient in an separate console session
echo "User-Name=test,User-Password=mypass,Framed-Protocol=PPP" | radclient -x 127.0.0.1:3500 auth test
Sent Access-Request Id 31 from 0.0.0.0:52235 to 127.0.0.1:3500 length 50
User-Name = "test"
User-Password = "mypass"
Framed-Protocol = PPP
Cleartext-Password = "mypass"
Received Access-Accept Id 31 from 127.0.0.1:3500 to 0.0.0.0:0 length 110
Reply-Message = "Echo Test-Radius-Server"
User-Name = "test"
User-Password = "ѣ\3332a\274\016({\312A\257P\3623\214\273-\342\331Z\035\024:\267\254i#h'\200\262\021f˷c\305y2*\201qlNh\234\236u\377\207"
Framed-Protocol = PPP
- As you can see, the echo is missing the attribute
Cleartext-Password-> it isn't implemented by default, yet ;) - Also ignore the cryptic looking
User-Passwordattribute, server-side encrypting for this attribute is also missing. But given by RFC, the server should never be doing this!
Benchmark
In extension to the example given above, you can stress-test your SkyDiablo/SkyRadius instance by improving the requests:
echo "User-Name=test,User-Password=mypass,Framed-Protocol=PPP" | radclient -n 1000 -c 99999999999 127.0.0.1:3500 auth test
In my setup I was able to handle 15k requests/sec at 90% CPU load with the demo-server mentioned here. For this I have
started the radclient 5 times with -n 40000 on the same server and piped the output into > /dev/null. Used CPU: Intel(R) Xeon(R) Gold 6140 CPU @ 2.30GHz with 2 cores:
Running tests
Install development dependencies from the project root:
composer install
Run the full PHPUnit suite:
composer test
Alternatively, invoke PHPUnit directly:
./vendor/bin/phpunit
Run a single test class or method:
./vendor/bin/phpunit tests/AttributeTest.php
./vendor/bin/phpunit --filter testMethodName
Configuration lives in phpunit.xml at the project root. Deprecations, warnings, and PHPUnit notices are printed in full after the test run (displayDetailsOnAllIssues is enabled). Tests require PHP 8.1 or newer (PHPUnit 12 is used as the test runner).
TODOs
- Attribute Dictionary Loader
- YAML
- JSON
