Hello Bruno -
You can add an Identifier to the AuthBy LDAP2 clause and then access
it in the hook with something like this:
my $authby = Radius::AuthGeneric::find('your_identifier');
then you can use all the internal routines like this:
my $rc = $authby->.....
hth
Hugh
At 15:56 +0100 28/8/00, Bruno Tiago Rodrigues wrote:
>hi there.
>
>we've been using Radiator for quite a while as a proxy, twiddling
>configurations and getting strange conclusions about smoothly migrating from
>Sun Radius to Radiator.
>we're currently lookingfor the following behaviour:
>
>
>authentication packets : LDAP (AuthbyLDAP2.pm) [checking username and
>password ONLY] and some trivial LDAP fields comparisons.
>
>accounting packets : a post_auth hook which basically does all the work
>comparing, tweaking and returning user attributes (usage time and all that
>stuff). post_auth hooks work fine for us, but since we're using LDAP, it
>would be theoretically better to keep an open connection to the LDAP server
>(the same connection used on AuthbyLDAP2.pm would just be perfect! ). The
>problem is... since the connection is part of a structure passed over and
>over, is there any way we can use it inside hooks ? (the same way as we use
>it on AuthbyLDAP2.pm, on the reconnect method, ie: reconnecting if the
>connection was lost or never made or returning the open socket if it
>exists). How can we reach that structure? Is it based on a global variable
>or something ?
>
>suppose we can't reuse the LDAP connection AuthbyLDAP2.pm uses. Can we use a
>startup hook to create a global LDAP connection so it can be used outside
>it, in all post_auth hooks we need to? We've been looking at the code
>examples and having some problems defining a global variable? Would someone
>be kind enough to show us a working example other than the /goodies one
>we've got?
>
>thanks in advance
>
>-Bruno Rodrigues
>
>
>
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