What is the recommended way of overriding a mod file like "realm"

Matthew Newton mcn at freeradius.org
Thu Apr 26 15:18:12 CEST 2018


On Thu, 2018-04-26 at 14:08 +0100, Nick Howitt wrote:
> or I have a couple of choices of adding a block:
> 
>     realm realmclearos {
>          format = suffix
>          delimiter = "/"
>     }
> 
> at the bottom /etc/raddb/mods-available/realm or in its own file in 
> mods-available and symlinking to it from mods-enabled

This looks tidier to me.

> There is a fair push on the mailing lists of keeping things standard
> and I am wondering what is the best direction - or is my solution
> completely wrong.

Well... there's keeping things standard, and there's making the config
work. No point leaving the config "as-is" if it doesn't work for you.
That's the whole point; you can change it.

The thing is, don't change things that don't need changing. 99% of the
default config will work for everyone, so there's no need to try and
tweak it unless it's needed.

So, if both of the above work for you, use whichever of the two methods
you're happiest with yourself. Then check them into git or whatever so
you know what you've changed from the default.

You could also just comment out the "realm" call and use unlang
instead, if you wanted.

-- 
Matthew



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