Re: unlang vs suffix

13 Nov 2013

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I have a simple doubt; I have seen many times a couple of people saying they prefer to use unlang than the suffix directive; what´s the advantage of - supposing proxy.conf is adequately  configured, instead of doing
Suffix is deprecated, it was remove from version 3.x.x because it duplicated behaviour
available with unlang.

If you want to use new versions of the server you don't have a choice.
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suffix
do instead (ignore the if part, I know it is missing in the example above, it is here just for the sake of clarity):
if (!(User-Name =~ /^([^@]*)@(.+)$/)) {
           update reply {
              Reply-Message := "malformed username"
           }
           reject
        }
        else {
           update request {
                Stripped-User-Name := "%{1}"
                Realm := "%{2}"
           }
           if (Realm == "iscte.pt") {
              update control {
                 Proxy-To-Realm := LOCAL
              }
           }
           else {
              update control {
                 Proxy-To-Realm := EDUROAM
              }
           }
        }
Suffix is more magic. The logic isn't obvious to someone new to FreeRADIUS, whereas writing it out explicitly in
unlang is easily understandable.

It's also not obvious (by the name) that suffix will also setup proxying, as well as mangling the username.

Arran Cudbard-Bell <a.cudbardb@freeradius.org>
FreeRADIUS Development Team