Stefan Winter wrote:
That's not how I read the comments in hints:
# The hints file. This file is used to match # a request, and then add attributes to it.
There's some mention of some special rules "Prefix" and "Suffix", and _these_ can only work on the User-Name. Anything else should be doable anyway. That's definitely what that file does. The "hints" the filename refer to are hints that the USER submits in their authentication request, by
Well, I am probably not long enough in the RADIUS business to remember the historical reasons for the hints file. For me, hints is the only means to
Grin - me either
manipulate input avp items in a packet. And a very flexible solution too, since it does "users" style mangling. And the comments in the file don't say "but whatever you put in here will be ignored if there is no attribute User-Name in the request".
I agree with you.
The patch looks relatively trivial. Simply delete the check for null usernames. In *fact*, I don't think the left hand side of the "users" entries in that file is used at all.
I just submitted bug #335
Cool. Hopefully it will be accepted by one of the devs.