Damian Porter wrote:

the user-name is coming to the radius process without any dashes and i want to add dashes to separate the octets.

I have looked an that document and it does not offer a solution for the problem.

Are you responding to me? 0e35-353afe-3afe19-fe19 has dashes. Either it came that way or your regex works (at least partially). If it came that way, then your searchfor will never work because it is not expecting those dashes. If it didn't come that way, I'd be surprised because it doesn't look like your regex should do that. Try running the server in debug mode and send us the output. You may be surprised by what it tells you. As to the link, look again. It wasn't meant to fix your regex, it was meant to suggest an alternative way to do what you are doing (you still need to figure out the regex). It has instructions on how to rewrite a username using regex (exactly what you are trying to do) with just the hints file. It is a bit more elegant and will likely rewrite the username sooner in the processing, allowing you to use the new username in huntgroups, etc. -- Dennis Skinner Systems Administrator BlueFrog Internet http://www.bluefrog.com