no lower_user/lower_pass in pre2 ?

[Phil Mayers]

On Sun, Sep 09, 2007 at 06:26:37PM +0200, Alan DeKok wrote:
>Phil Mayers wrote:
>> On thing I have used this for is with mac-address auth, to convert
>> upper-case mac address formats to lower-case.
>
>  It's better to just use lowercase for everything, rather than running
>an authentication request *twice* through the server.

Well yes - but if the NAS sends it in upper-case...

>
>  And the new configuration possibilities in 2.0 make it easy to emulate
>the "lower_password", etc. configurations.

Indeed.

>
>> A "tr" module in the server would be very useful.
>
>  Yes.

I did look into this briefly; sadly the "tr" source code is pretty big 
and not exacltly modular :o)