(RADIATOR) Three small(?) feature requests

[Mike McCauley]

Hello Jethro,

On Thursday 24 November 2005 18:50, Jethro R Binks wrote:
> On Thu, 24 Nov 2005, Mike McCauley wrote:
> > > Can debugging output for the AuthGROUP debug also print the Identifier
> > > set for the group, as it does for the AuthLDAP2 one above?
> >
> > Added, now in the latest patch set.
>
> Thanks.
>
> > Thats quite difficult: we are at the mercy of Sys::Hostname there, and
> > Im not convinced there is a better more complete way, that is
> > universallly available :-( See man Sys::Hostname for more details on how
> > the hostname is determined: you may be able to change the config of your
> > host to get a better answer.
>
> I thought it might be something like that; I rememeber looking into this
> for something I was doing a while ago.  I wrote something like:
>
>         $myhostname = hostname();
>         my $mypaddress  = gethostbyname("$myhostname")
>                 or die "Couldn't resolve ${myhostname}: $!";
>         $myhostname = gethostbyaddr($mypaddress, AF_INET)
>                 or die "Couldn't re-resolve ${myhostname}: $!";
>
> on that occasion.  Meanwhile, I see there is a Sys::Hostname::Long, which
> tries harder to find the FQDN.

Unfortunately that is not a standard inclusion for most perl installations :-(
I think we will decline to change the current behaviour.
I think the best way to solve this is to adjust your host naming arrangements 
so that hostname() returns the name you want.

Cheers.

>
> Either way, I'd prefer that %h (or probably some other variable for
> backwards compatibility) returned only the simple hostname, and another
> one returned the FQDN where it is available.
>
> > In the light of that, do you still wish for item 2 above?
>
> I think so; it's better than nothing.  In fact I already do things like
> Include %D/something.%h, so I already have to deal with this issue with
> filenames anyway.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Jethro.
>
> > Cheers.
> >
> > > I'm running 3.13 with patches circa August currently, so apologies if
> > > these features are included in a later patch set.
> > >
> > > Ta,
> > >
> > > Jethro.
> > >
> > > . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
> > > . . Jethro R Binks
> > > Computing Officer, IT Services
> > > University Of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK
> > >
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> Jethro R Binks
> Computing Officer, IT Services
> University Of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK
>
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Mike McCauley                               mikem at open.com.au
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Radiator: the most portable, flexible and configurable RADIUS server 
anywhere. SQL, proxy, DBM, files, LDAP, NIS+, password, NT, Emerald, 
Platypus, Freeside, TACACS+, PAM, external, Active Directory, EAP, TLS, 
TTLS, PEAP etc on Unix, Windows, MacOS, NetWare etc.

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