(RADIATOR) Feature Req: AuthBy INLINE

[Hugh Irvine]

Hello Neale -

There are both advantages and disadvantages with anything, however the reason 
I generally use the approach that I do is because the configuration files 
that I typically work on are *very* large and *very* complex and the goal is 
almost always to simplify the main Radiator configuration file as much as 
possible.

BTW - I *always* use copious comment blocks to indicate very cleary what is 
going on and what files are doing what.

regards

Hugh

On Friday 25 May 2001 10:53, Neale Banks wrote:
> In some recent replies (including to one of my queries), Hugh has
> suggested "steering" auth requests by using <AuthBy FILE> with a file of
> very few entries, typically with "DEFAULT Check-item=foo,Auth-Type=bar".
>
> Whilst this appears a technically elegant and efficient solution, IMHO it
> scores miserably in the readibility department (from the perspective of
> looking at the config file, 'cause flow therin is directed by data in
> another file).
>
> I suspect that readability could be greatly improved by having a feature
> something like this:
>
> 	<AuthBy INLINE>
> 		<USER DEFAULT>
> 			CheckItems Check-item=foo,Auth-Type=bar
> 		</USER>
> 	</AuthBy>
>
> Of course, you might want ReplyItems available in there too ;-)
>
> Downside is that changing this data would require the daemon to be HUPed,
> whereas changing the same data in a file now is automagically picked up by
> Radiator.
>
> Anyone else see value in this one?
>
> Regards,
> Neale.
>
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