Sanity check, example in users man page

Ivan Kalik tnt at kalik.net
Thu Sep 3 20:53:15 CEST 2009


You do. Current documentation should be in man 5 users.

Ivan Kalik
Kalik Informatika ISP

> v2.1.6.  AFAIK FR was never installed on this box - it's fairly new - so
> I don't think it could've been some legacy doc that didn't get
> overwritten when 2.1.6 was installed.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: freeradius-users-bounces+ggatten=waddell.com at lists.freeradius.org
> [mailto:freeradius-users-bounces+ggatten=waddell.com at lists.freeradius.or
> g] On Behalf Of Alan Buxey
> Sent: Thursday, September 03, 2009 1:33 PM
> To: FreeRadius users mailing list
> Subject: Re: Sanity check, example in users man page
>
> Hi,
>> >From users man page:
>>
>> EXAMPLES
>>               bob  User-Password == "hello"
>>
>> Requests  containing  the User-Name attribute, with value "bob",
>> will be authenticated using the password "bob".   There  are  no
>> reply items, so the reply will be empty.
>>
>>
>> Surely this is incorrect - right?  Should this not read:
>> "... will be authenticated using the password "hello".
>>
>>
>> Assuming I'm correct, this is my excuse for taking so long to grasp
> some
>> of the concepts of FR, unlang, etc.  I think there are several doc
>> errors / typos that are confusing me....
>
>
> what version are you actually looking at? your example predates
> 2.x of the code....and only 2.x of the code has unlang etc.
>
> the current doc (man 5 users) states
>
> bob  Cleartext-Password := "hello"
>
>               Requests  containing  the User-Name attribute, with value
> "bob", will be authenticated
>               using the "known good" password "hello".  There are no
> reply items, so the reply  will
>               be empty.
>
>
> but yes - the text you have is wrong..... it is, indeed password "hello"
> - its
> fairly obvious.
>
> from the text i'd say you've got a document that came with version 1.0.2
> of the code?
>
> alan
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