Plain text password file

[Phil Mayers]

Alexander Lund wrote:
> Can somebody explain howto use rlm_passwd and a textfile with this setup:
> name:password:group
> and so on
> the order can be any way around, spaces can also be present.

Wait: Are you saying that the file you *supply* freeradius may have 
spaces in it? That won't work, fix the file (it's not hard). Assuming 
that's not what you mean, and a format of:

username:unixCryptPassword:ASingleGroupName

...then this should suffice:

modules {
   passwd user_pass_group {
     filename = /path/to/file
     format = "*User-Name:~Crypt-Password:~Group"
   }
   pap {
     encryption_scheme = crypt
   }
}

authorize {
   preprocess
   user_pass_group
}
authenticate {
   Auth-Type PAP {
     pap
   }
}

...it's so trivial I assume you need more than this. Are you having a 
specific problem? If you want to use other schemes such as chap, you may 
need the plaintext password, for example:

for username:plaintextPassword:ASingleGroup

modules {
   passwd u_g_p {
     filename = /path/to/file
     format = "*User-Name:~User-Password:~Group"
   }
   pap {
     encryption_scheme = clear
   }
   chap {
   }
}
authorize {
   preprocess
   u_g_p
   chap
   pap
}
authenticate {
   Auth-Type PAP {
     pap
   }
   Auth-Type CHAP {
     chap
   }
}