dialup admin - problem with users

[Kostas Kalevras]

On Wed, 12 Oct 2005, Matt Vollmar wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I searched the archives briefly, but I wasn't sure how to even phrase this 
> issue.  I have Freeradius authenticating Chillispot through a MySQL DB.  One 
> of the features of Chillispot is to authenticate based on MAC address first 
> before checking username.  This sends the MAC as Username and a 
> pre-determined password.  I have this working fine, but the problem is that 
> Dialup Admin will not accept usernames with "dashes" in them.  Every time I 
> try to edit a user like "00-0E-35-A8-25-9F", it changes the name to 
> "000E35A8259F" which of course does not exist.  Anyone know of a quick fix 
> for this?  If not, I will send some patches for this and a few other problems 
> I found with Dialup Admin.  I just hate delving into a project like this when 
> there is the possibility of a fix existing.

See conf/config.php3 and preg_replace on the $login variable. Though in the 
latest version '-' is also accepted. Hope this helps

>
> Thanks,
>
> Matt
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