hi, I am trying to used the rlm_perl for authentication, I've found reading all the perl modules, but wouldn't able to handle the username from the client. For the testing purpose I've put this simple script in the perl program if ($RAD_REQUEST{'User-Name'} eq "john") { $RAD_REPLY{'A message'} = " Accepting John"; return RLM_MODULE_OK; } else { $RAD_REPLY{'A message'} = "Rececting users"; return RLM_MODULE_REJECT; } unfortunately everytime i try to authenticate the user "john" regardless of the password, the server rejects all the time here is the piece of output after rejecting the users rad_recv: Access-Request packet from host 127.0.0.1 port 32866, id=177, length=56 User-Name = "john" User-Password = "password" NAS-IP-Address = 127.0.0.1 NAS-Port = 0 +- entering group authorize ++[preprocess] returns ok perl_pool: item 0x9e63c98 asigned new request. Handled so far: 1 found interpetator at address 0x9e63c98 rlm_perl: Added pair User-Name = john rlm_perl: Added pair User-Password = password rlm_perl: Added pair NAS-Port = 0 rlm_perl: Added pair NAS-IP-Address = 127.0.0.1 perl_pool total/active/spare [32/0/32] Unreserve perl at address 0x9e63c98 ++[perl] returns ok rlm_realm: No '@' in User-Name = "john", looking up realm NULL rlm_realm: No such realm "NULL" ++[suffix] returns noop rlm_eap: No EAP-Message, not doing EAP ++[eap] returns noop users: Matched entry DEFAULT at line 203 ++[files] returns ok ++[expiration] returns noop ++[logintime] returns noop rlm_pap: WARNING! No "known good" password found for the user. Authentication may fail because of this. ++[pap] returns noop rad_check_password: Found Auth-Type Perl auth: type "Perl" +- entering group Perl perl_pool: item 0xa08e5d8 asigned new request. Handled so far: 1 found interpetator at address 0xa08e5d8 1,bill,Cleartext-Password,bill,:= Use of uninitialized value in string eq at /usr/local/etc/raddb/example.pmline 126. rlm_perl: Added pair User-Name = john rlm_perl: Added pair User-Password = password rlm_perl: Added pair NAS-IP-Address = 127.0.0.1 rlm_perl: Added pair NAS-Port = 0 rlm_perl: Added pair Auth-Type = Perl perl_pool total/active/spare [32/0/32] Unreserve perl at address 0xa08e5d8 ++[perl] returns reject auth: Failed to validate the user. Login incorrect: [john/password] (from client localhost port 0) Found Post-Auth-Type Reject +- entering group REJECT expand: %{User-Name} -> john attr_filter: Matched entry DEFAULT at line 11 ++[attr_filter.access_reject] returns updated Delaying reject of request 0 for 1 seconds Going to the next request Waking up in 0.9 seconds. Sending delayed reject for request 0 Sending Access-Reject of id 177 to 127.0.0.1 port 32866 Waking up in 4.9 seconds. Cleaning up request 0 ID 177 with timestamp +10 Ready to process requests. Regards, Elangbam Johnson