How to pass information between modules?

[Alan DeKok]

Martin Gadbois wrote:

> What would be the best way to pass information between ldap and sql?

  In the same way that all of the other modules do it: Put the
information into attributes.  That's what the "config item" list is for.

> For example, if I were to extract a group name from "ldap" and pass it
> to "sql" to get all the RADIUS attributes associated to this group, what
> would be the strategy to acheive that?

  Put it into an attribute in the config items.

> In other words, how to configure those modules if the "ldap" contains
> the group info, but "sql" the actual RADIUS attribute per group?

  You can use the "LDAP-Group" attribute, see the rlm_ldap documentation.

  Alan DeKok.
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