Hello Dave -
As the name implies, AuthBy GROUP is an AuthBy clause, not a Handler.
They are mainly used for chaining multiple AuthBy clauses and tagged
with an Identifier for use in Realms or Handlers.
hth
Hugh
At 8:45 -0500 01/3/28, Kitabjian, Dave wrote:
>Ahh, I see. Sorry I didn't think of that.
>
>Would I be correct in assessing this AuthBy GROUP as behaving sort of like a
>quasi-Handler? It seems that it offers some Handler-like control...
>
>Thanks!
>
>Dave
>:)
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Hugh Irvine [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>> Sent: Friday, January 01, 1904 5:31 AM
>> To: Kitabjian, Dave; '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
>> Cc: Wild, Andrew
>> Subject: Re: (RADIATOR) RewriteUsername in <AuthBy> ?
>>
>>
>>
>> Hello Dave -
>>
>> The way to do this is with AuthBy GROUP(s):
>>
>...
>>
>> Hugh
>>
>>
>> At 16:56 -0500 01/3/27, Kitabjian, Dave wrote:
>> >Subject says it all.
>> >
>> >The docs say you can specify RewriteUsername Globally, in
>> Client clauses,
>> >and in Realms. (It might be worth mentioning that it appears
>> to work in
>> >non-realm Handlers, too.)
>> >
>> >But anyway...
>> >
>> >I'm wondering if it can work in <AuthBy> clauses?
>> >
>> >The reason we'd like that is as follows. We do a
>> RewriteUsername to strip
>> >out garbled characters before passing requests onto LDAP,
>> since it will hang
>> >LDAP (and sometimes Radiator :-( ). We don't know which
>> Clients will end up
>> >using the AuthBy LDAP, and the requests may arrive via other
>> Handlers, too.
>> >So the logical place to put it is in the AuthBy. Otherwise,
>> we'll have to
>> >make sure to specify it in each Handler, which is less than elegant.
>> >
>> >Does this make sense?
>> >
>> >Thanks!
>> >
>> >Dave
>> >NetCarrier
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