On Sun, Sep 09, 2007 at 06:26:37PM +0200, Alan DeKok wrote:
Phil Mayers wrote:On thing I have used this for is with mac-address auth, to convert upper-case mac address formats to lower-case.It's better to just use lowercase for everything, rather than running an authentication request *twice* through the server.
Well yes - but if the NAS sends it in upper-case...
And the new configuration possibilities in 2.0 make it easy to emulate the "lower_password", etc. configurations.
Indeed.
A "tr" module in the server would be very useful.Yes.
I did look into this briefly; sadly the "tr" source code is pretty big and not exacltly modular :o)