compiling freeradius source code

[ashwini b]

hi,
thank you for the suggestion.but as i mentioned earlier i'm really a
newcomer in this field..
where should i make these changes?and i hav to authenticate the user based
on username ,password and the checkbit(as mentioned earlier).Can u suggest
how i could accomplish this.a detailed explanation will be a great help...
thanks in advance.

On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 5:18 PM, Brian Candler <B.Candler at pobox.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 12:46:42AM -0700, ash wrote:
> > I'm a beginner in freeradius and i'm not familiar with the code.i'm
> setting
> > up 802.1x authentication using freeradius and it works fine.but before
> > authenticating the user based on username and password and assigning  to
> a
> > vlan i have to check one more condition (whether a file is present in
> client
> > or not.for this i'm sending a bit along with username.if file is present,
> > the bit is set to 1).so to separate the bit from username at the
> freeradius
> > for authentication i edited the auth.c file.now how should i compile the
> > modified code and install it?
>
> This shouldn't be necessary. You can use unlang to update the User-Name,
> e.g.
>
>    if (User-Name =~ /^(.)(.*)$/) {
>      update request {
>        My-Flag = $1
>        User-Name = $2
>      }
>    }
>
> (assuming you've defined My-Flag in the dictionary, or you could use
> Tmp-String-0 or similar).
>
> The above assumes you've stuffed one extra byte in front of the User-Name.
> If that's not what you've done, then it will need updating appropriately.
>
> Regards,
>
> Brian.
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