Sanity check, example in users man page

Alan Buxey A.L.M.Buxey at lboro.ac.uk
Thu Sep 3 20:33:16 CEST 2009


Hi,
> >From users man page:
> 
> EXAMPLES
>               bob  User-Password == "hello"
> 
> Requests  containing  the User-Name attribute, with value "bob",
> will be authenticated using the password "bob".   There  are  no
> reply items, so the reply will be empty.
> 
> 
> Surely this is incorrect - right?  Should this not read:
> "... will be authenticated using the password "hello".   
> 
> 
> Assuming I'm correct, this is my excuse for taking so long to grasp some
> of the concepts of FR, unlang, etc.  I think there are several doc
> errors / typos that are confusing me....


what version are you actually looking at? your example predates
2.x of the code....and only 2.x of the code has unlang etc.

the current doc (man 5 users) states

bob  Cleartext-Password := "hello"

              Requests  containing  the User-Name attribute, with value "bob", will be authenticated
              using the "known good" password "hello".  There are no reply items, so the reply  will
              be empty.


but yes - the text you have is wrong..... it is, indeed password "hello" - its
fairly obvious. 

from the text i'd say you've got a document that came with version 1.0.2 of the code?

alan



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