Regular expressions doesn't work in /etc/raddb/hints

[Victor Shkamerda]

>>> On 2/12/2009 at 9:29 PM, in message <499478AC.6040009 at deployingradius.com>,
Alan DeKok <aland at deployingradius.com> wrote:
> Victor Shkamerda wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> We are migrating from other RADIUS software to FreeRADIUS.  In order to 
> avoid changing existing users database objects, I'm trying to fix the 
> User-Name attribute format in NAS request and it seems that preprocess 
> module is the right place to do that. But after adding new default rule in 
> the hints file I have discovered that it doesn't work. The rule is always 
> matching my regular expression no matter what string I put into it. The 
> regular expression is simply the string itself i.e. like "/string/". After 
> looking through sources I found that in src/lib/valuepair.c in pairmove the 
> operator T_OP_REG_EQ is commented out. Could it be the culprit or is there 
> anything else that I should know? The FreeRADIUS version is 2.1.3 on SLES 10 
> compiled from sources.
> 
>   This should be fixed in 2.1.4.

I have just tried revision 17581f3d which supposedly should fixed this bug, but it
doesn't work either. When I use exact match operator == it works, but when I
use regexp match =~ and add slashes accordingly i.e. "/string/" it doesn't match
anymore.

With best regards,
Victor Shkamerda