(RADIATOR) Combining AuthRADIUS, Host and DefineFormattedGlobalVar

[Mike McCauley]

Hello Valentin,

thanks for this patch.
It has now been added to the mainline and the latest patch set.

Thanks again,

Cheers.

On Thursday 30 August 2007 18:35, Valentin Tumarkin wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Today in Radiator you can use:
>
> <AuthBy RADIUS>
>      Host 192.168.1.1,192.168.1.2
> </AuthBy>
>
> and
>
> DefineFormattedGlobalVar   ONE_RADIUS_HOST  192.168.1.1
> <AuthBy RADIUS>
>      Host %{GlobalVar:ONE_RADIUS_HOST}
> </AuthBy>
>
> or:
>
> DefineFormattedGlobalVar   ONE_RADIUS_HOST  192.168.1.1
> DefineFormattedGlobalVar   ANOTHEr_RADIUS_HOST  192.168.1.2
>
> <AuthBy RADIUS>
>      Host %{GlobalVar:ONE_RADIUS_HOST}
>      Host %{GlobalVar:ANOTHER_RADIUS_HOST}
> </AuthBy>
>
>
> However the following will fail:
>
> DefineFormattedGlobalVar   MANY_RADIUS_HOSTS  192.168.1.1,192.168.1.2
> <AuthBy RADIUS>
>      Host %{GlobalVar:MANY_RADIUS_HOSTS}
> </AuthBy>
>
> When the last configuration can be useful -
> Imagine a scenario when there are multiple Radiator installations
> (e.g: lab and production).
> Configuration is split in two parts - global and site-specific
> configuration files. Site-specific configuration files use GlobalVar's
> to configure hosts/addresses.
> Production installation has multiple remote RADIUS servers to proxy
> to, while the lab has only one remote server.
>
> Here's one possible AuthRADIUS fix to add support for this:
>
> sub addHosts
> {
>     my ($self, $name, $file, @args) = @_;
>
>     # Original version:
>     # map {$self->addHost($_, $file, @args)} (split(/\s*,\s*/, $name));
>
>     # Modified to support multiple hosts defined via GlobalVar
>     map {$self->addHost($_, $file, @args)}
>         split(/\s*,\s*/, &Radius::Util::format_special($name));
> }
>
>
> Regards,
> Valentin
>
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