Re: How to connect to backend DB

[Peter Nixon <listuser@peternixon.net>]

On Thu 07 Jun 2007, Nitin Naveen wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am writing a new RLM called rlm_prop_protocol. It basically adds some
> attributes. The value for
> these attributes are pulled from a backend database (MYSQL). I wanted to
> know whether there
> is a provision in freeradius or some standard method that may be used to
> connect and fetch
> data from the MYSQL database. As of now I have added MYSQL specific code
> in my module.

Did you bother to look at the FreeRADIUS code before you started writing??

The modules rlm_sql and rlm_sql_mysql would seem to be pretty self 
explanatory :-)

It is quite likely that you can do what you need without writing a new 
module...

Cheers
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