Re: Check against TWO possible password?

[Federico Giannici <giannici@neomedia.it>]

Jan Mulders wrote:
> if all else fails, try using rlm_perl to do the authentication (or 
> maybe, compare the password against both elements in the database, then 
> 'rewrite' it as the first if it matches, so rlm_sql recognises it 
> properly. This, of course, is a bit of a hack (but if it works every 
> time and is less complex than a failover implementation, is it bad?).

Well... this is a little more than "a bit of a hack".
It will work with clear-text authentication mechanisms only...

Bye.


> On 03/02/07, *Federico Giannici* <giannici@neomedia.it 
> <mailto:giannici@neomedia.it>> wrote:
>
>     Alan DeKok wrote:
>      > Federico Giannici wrote:
>      >> Now we have to check every authentication against TWO different
>      >> passwords (it's OK if ONE is matched). Something like setting two
>      >> different and alternative "User-Password" attributes...
>      >
>      >   Sort of.  See doc/configurable_failover.
>
>     I read it, but I'm a little confused...
>
>     How can I use it to make the AUTHENTICATE sections to be tried a SECOND
>     time (with a different Cleartext-Password set by an authorization
>     module), if the first time the authentication failed?
>
>
>     Thanks.
>
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