But you asked if there was: "some standard method that may be used to connect and fetch data from the MYSQL database?"
The answer is: Look at rlm_sql, rlm_sqlippool or any of the other modules that use SQL.. -Peter On Fri 08 Jun 2007, Nitin Naveen wrote: > Hi Peter, > > I did bother to look at rlm_sql. However my need is a bit different. I do > not > want to fetch values from a DB and added them as values to certain radisu > attributes. > I want to fetch, do some operation on the feteched value and then add the > result > of the operation to the radius attributes. Any ideas or suggested steps > would be > helpful. > > Regards > Nitin > > Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2007 11:12:47 +0300 > From: Peter Nixon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: How to connect to backend DB > To: FreeRadius users mailing list > <freeradius-users@lists.freeradius.org> > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-9" > > On Thu 07 Jun 2007, Nitin Naveen wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I am writing a new RLM called rlm_prop_protocol. It basically adds some > > attributes. The value for > > these attributes are pulled from a backend database (MYSQL). I wanted to > > know whether there > > is a provision in freeradius or some standard method that may be used to > > connect and fetch > > data from the MYSQL database. As of now I have added MYSQL specific code > > in my module. > > Did you bother to look at the FreeRADIUS code before you started writing?? > > The modules rlm_sql and rlm_sql_mysql would seem to be pretty self > explanatory :-) > > It is quite likely that you can do what you need without writing a new > module... > > Cheers -- Peter Nixon http://www.peternixon.net/ PGP Key: http://www.peternixon.net/public.asc - List info/subscribe/unsubscribe? See http://www.freeradius.org/list/users.html