(RADIATOR) Radiator Version 3.9 released

[Hugh Irvine]

Hello Nick -

Mike and I have discussed this and we have decided to leave things as 
they are in the standard code.

I suspect the simplest thing to do would be for you to write a custom 
AuthBy module to do both the authentication and the session database 
checking using the different databases as you describe (it should be 
fairly straightforward to adapt the AuthBy SQL clause 
"Radius/AuthSQL.pm").

regards

Hugh


On 19 Mar 2004, at 05:54, Nick Rogness wrote:

> On Thu, 18 Mar 2004, Hugh Irvine wrote:
>
>>
>> Hello Nick -
>>
>> Neither of these things are possible as they don't happen on a
>> per-request basis.
>>
>> I suppose you could use a hook, but I would be very cautious about
>> introducing race conditions and unexpected errors.
>
> 	That may be true but it would save me from having to build 30
> 	Handlers for the different AuthBy SQL and Session databases.
> 	
> 	The idea is to add some attribute in a prehandler which identifes
> 	the corresponding database(s).  Since I know in prehandler what
> 	databases to use it is simply a replacement and race conditions
> 	would mostly be avoided.
>
> 	I have 30 or so different databases with the exact same schema, so
> 	the only difference is the DBI connection string.  It's a pain to
> 	have to use 30 different handlers just because I can't dynamically
> 	change the DBSource and Session identifiers with a prehandler
> 	hook.
>
> 	So there is a very good use for it.
>
>>
>> There are some example hooks in the file "goodies/hooks.txt".
>>
>> regards
>>
>> Hugh
>>
>>
>> On 18 Mar 2004, at 12:06, Nick Rogness wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Does this version support have the ability to do replacement of
>>> SessionDatabase or DBSource by attributes?  For example:
>>>
>>> 	<Handler ....>
>>>
>>>   	  SessionDatabase %{Some-attr-I-added-in-PreHandlerHook}
>>>
>>>           <AuthBy SQL>
>>>           DBSource dbi:mysql:{Another-attr-I-added-in-PreHandlerHook}
>>> 	  ...
>>> 	  </AuthBy>
>>>
>>> 	</Handler>
>>>
>>>
>>> It would be nice to have this feature.  Any comments or ways to do 
>>> this
>>> yet without building a custom AuthBy module?
>>>
>
> -- 
> Nick Rogness <nick at rogness.net>
> -
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>
>
>

NB: have you included a copy of your configuration file (no secrets),
together with a trace 4 debug showing what is happening?

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