Password script

[Alan DeKok]

Miroslav Lednicky wrote:
> I have Freeradius 2.1.10. I need use script for getting
> cleartext passwords from external system.
> 
> I try this in authorize section:
> 
> update control {
>     Cleartext-Password = `%{exec:/usr/local/bin/my-script %{User-Name}}`

  That is wrong.  Read "man unlang".

  The back-quotes `foo` say "run the string foo as if it had been typed
on the command line".

  There is no command called "%{exec...", so it fails.

  The solution is to simplify the string:

     Cleartext-Password = `/usr/local/bin/my-script %{User-Name}`

  Alan DeKok.