Auth-Test accounts in "users" file

James McOrmond jamesm at xandros.com
Wed Mar 26 23:02:30 CET 2008



Alan DeKok wrote:
> James McOrmond wrote:
>   
>> Is it possible/appropriate to have some test accounts in the "users"
>> file, along with an Auth-Type set to which auth type this account can be
>> used for?
>>     
>
>   Yes.  But don't set Auth-Type.  Please.
>   
you seem to have a real issue with it :-)

>> We're testing a client that we're building (based on wpa_supplicant on
>> linux), so would like to confirm the different auth methods are actually
>> connecting as configured.
>>     
>
>   I would say to use 2.0.  The new "unlang" policy language makes this
> much easier.
>
>   
>> I was thinking something like:
>>
>> test-pap   Auth-Type = PAP, User-Password := "pap-test"
>> test-chap Auth-Type = CHAP, User-Password := "chap-test"
>>     
>
>   Or...
>
>  if (User-Name == "test-pap") {
> 	if (User-Password)  {
> 		update control {
> 			Cleartext-Password := "pap-test"
> 		}
>         }
> 	else {
> 		# test failed, do something...
> 		reject
> 	}
>  }
>
>
>   It's a lot more verbose, but also a lot clearer, I think.
>   
I specifically want the test-pap account to fail if the authentication 
method used is anything but pap.  I don't see that restriction here.


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