Configuration trouble with fail-over

[Alan DeKok]

Guillaume Rousse wrote:
> What's wrong with just looking recursively for the name under which the
> module has been instanciated in the authorization section, without
> interpreting fail-over behaviour at all ?

  Because it may be listed under multiple Auth-Type sections.  This is
something that people do, and is valid.

>>   The problem is a common one in computer science: write a program that
>> "understands" what another program is doing.  This problem is generally
>> known to be impossible.
> Here the communication occurs between the main program, and one of its
> module, the relationship is a bit tighter.

  The problem is interpreting the meaning of the configuration in an
"authenticate" section, including sections, sub-sections, "unlang", and
redundant sections.  Then, automatically making the server do the "right
thing" in the authorize section, based on it's interpretation of the
"authenticate" section.

  This is hard.

  Alan DeKok.