Sanity check, example in users man page

[Nicolas Goutte]

Am 03.09.2009 um 21:02 schrieb Gary Gatten:

> RPM shows nothing FR related installed.  I did run "man 5 users".
> v2.1.6 is current, no?
>

If you want something newer than the last released version, see http://git.freeradius.org 
  , especially the "stable" tree.

Have a nice day!

Nicolas Goutte

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> g] On Behalf Of Ivan Kalik
> Sent: Thursday, September 03, 2009 1:53 PM
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> Subject: RE: Sanity check, example in users man page
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> You do. Current documentation should be in man 5 users.
>
> Ivan Kalik
> Kalik Informatika ISP
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>> 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.
>>
>>
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>> 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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