Plug-in Question

[George Beitis]

I think its worth making sure that the wordings used correspond to the
proper meaning of the words.  For someone coming from from a background
where authentication means making sure the person says who they say the
are, and authorization making sure that that person is authorized to do
what they want to do, seeing authorization used in a different makes
them confused.  I think it is worth seeing this problem and correcting
the vocabulary used.  People who are using freeradius and have a proper
background should find the adjustment easy i think.

regards
George


Alan DeKok wrote:
> Stefan Winter wrote:
>   
>> It's a long shot, but: wouldn't it make sense to clear the wording for 2.0? I 
>> know, it would break all existing configs out there, but manually working 
>> through the config is needed anyways...
>> I know that this wording startled me quite a bit when I was new here...
>>     
>
>   It's worth doing.
>
>   The problem is we can't call the post-authentication step "authorize",
> because that will confuse everyone upgrading from 1.x.
>
>   I think the default configuration should be "pre-auth", "auth", and
> "post-auth".  We can still accept "authorize" as a synonym for
> "pre-auth" in the short term.
>
>   Alan DeKok.
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