Removing characters from usernames

[Andrew Zirkel]

Thanks that did the trick for User-Name and User-Password after I put  
what I renamed the name "macaddress_rewrite" to in the authorization  
section.

Andy Zirkel

On Feb 1, 2007, at 12:53 PM, Markus Krause wrote:

> I am doing this using the "attr_rewrite" module in radiusd.conf, i
> have the following section:
>
> ----
> modules {
>     ....
>          attr_rewrite macaddress_rewrite {
>                  attribute = User-Name
>                  searchin = packet
>                  searchfor = "-"
>                  replacewith = ":"
>                  new_attribute = no
>                  append = no
>          }
>     ....
> }
> ----
>
> i call it just before the actual ldap-module i am using.
>
> hth
>    regards
>      markus
>
>
> Zitat von Andrew Zirkel <azirkel at exeter.k12.pa.us>:
>> I was thinking I could do something like this with a regular  
>> expression:
>> User-Name =~ tr/-//d
>> but I'm not sure where to do it and if it will work.  I'm using a
>> mysql back end so I was thinking in the sql.conf file.
>> Has anyone done something like this before?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Andy
>>
>> On Jan 31, 2007, at 4:05 PM, Andrew Zirkel wrote:
>>
>>> Is there a way to parse the input of a username and password before
>>> it is passed to the back end database?  I'm doing mac address
>>> authentication and some devices are passing the mac address with
>>> dashes, where I need to have no separation between the octets.  I
>>> basically need to strip out these dashes from the input.
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>> Andy Zirkel
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