Greg, While you may have misunderstood Alan's terseness as him being nasty to you, please look at the situation.
You're saying that if there was a configuration file error, then by all means, stop the server, but if it's "just" a users file error, then it shouldn't be halted and the server should keep going on with some half-correct information. Personally, I don't see how the users file being in proper shape is any less critical than any other configuration file being correct. You'd be much better off implementing some solution to make sure the users file is correct (perhaps some type checking in whatever system you use to manage your users -- surely you don't have a bunch of type-prone data entry people editing the users file by hand, do you?). The users file has a very specific format, and it's not hard to follow. If you have proper checks in your management system, this is a moot point, and this has been pointed out in reference to the dialup_admin package. However, as has been stated, if you really think it should keep going and skip any users entries that are broken, you do have the source, and you can do whatever you wish with it. This doesn't mean Alan is going to accept it back into the main FR tree, but if you're dead-set on expecting the server to handle your typos rather than dealing with them where they should be corrected elsewhere, it's probably a 5 line change to do so. -Matt MNU Network Administrator --- Original Message Below --- From: Greg G <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: 093 Crashes with unknown tokens Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2003 16:51:54 -0500 No, it's doing just what I want. It's logging the problem with the user entry and getting on with processing. There's no reason that an single authentication item in the users file should halt the server. If it's a problem in the configuration file or something critical like that, absolutely there should be no further action. I understand that you have a different opinion, but that doesn't negate mine, or the fact that this is how I'd like it to work. Pointing me at the readme file isn't much help either, since that boils down to "fix it, or don't. Whatever." -Greg G - List info/subscribe/unsubscribe? See http://www.freeradius.org/list/users.html
