3.0.0: slightly confusing mods-config/files/authorize "John Doe"

[Stefan Winter]

Hi,

as every year, I'm unleashing the most current version of FreeRADIUS on
my unsuspecting students, to see if they find their way around.

This year it was 3.0.0 (yesterday, nice timing!) and there was one
unfortunate thing.

3.0.0 by default enables "files" for flatfile username and password
storage, which is good.

In mods-config/files/authorize, the first "normal" entry (not Reject,
proper cleartext-password, not a DEFAULT entry, only a single harmless
reply item) is the example of "John Doe".

In 2.x.x, I used to tell folks that the John Doe entry is the example to
uncomment and test auth against.

With the shipped default config of 3.0.0 though, John Doe will be
rejected even if his password is correct - the "filter_username" will
block the user before he even gets to password checking.

IMHO, the mods-config/files/authorize should either

a) contain a "normal" user higher up, so that it springs to mind as "the
thing to do". E.g. a johndoe instead of/before a "John Doe"

b) the comments before "John Doe" should explain that for this example
to work, filter_username needs to be disabled.

Greetings,

Stefan Winter

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