Andriy Gapon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I also want to apologize if my tone seemed too attacking towards > freeradius for such a novice that I am.
You're not attacking, you're worried about situations that haven't occured yet. > Now to the subject matter: let us imagine some not very distant future > when digest authentication extension is finally standardized We will address that situation when it happens. Until then, there isn't a lot of point in discussing this. > How would you resolve such situation ? Very carefully. > I wanted (or, at least, I thought that I wanted) something a little bit > different - not a new name for the same type, but a different type for > the same name. E.g.: > $ cat /usr/local/etc/raddb/dictionary > ATTRIBUTE My-Local-String 300 string > ATTRIBUTE My-Local-String 301 string That's wrong. The server won't accept it. Think what it would mean if the server did accept it. You see My-Local-String in a log file. Which attribute is it? You don't know. > By "marked" I meant not a mere comment in a dictionary file, but some > prefix to their name or something like that, e.g. > "PreRFC-Digest-Response". But this is probably too intrusive to do now. There is absolutely no reason to do that. Alan DeKok. - List info/subscribe/unsubscribe? See http://www.freeradius.org/list/users.html
