So use at your own risk. Dave. At 10:44 AM 6/24/97 -0400, Phillip Vandry wrote: >> At 17:36 04/05/1997 -0500, you wrote: >> >Except that the RADIUS server has no way of telling the Max about the >> >canonified, fixed, username, so the list of logged on users according >> >to the Max contains lots of garbage usernames, plus the RADIUS server >> >has to repeat the demangling when it received Accounting requests later on. >> > >> >How about an Ascend-Cannonical-Name that can be returned in the >> >authentication response to tell the Max to change the username it >> >records. >> >> this works for CLID authenticated call, >> and causes the "User-Name" to show in the logs, >> might be worth a try: >> >> xyz@my.com Password = "secretstuff" >> User-Name = "xyz", >> [...] > >I only got around to trying this trick today, but the results are positive. > >If you return a User-Name attribute in the RADIUS reply, then the Max will >use it in the display window and in accounting requests instead of the >original username. > >I use this feature with a code modification to radiusd. Our user >authentication code attempts to remove trailing @domain and leading >WINDOWS_WORDGROUP\ substrings from the username that ignorant users >like to put in, as well as cure the ALL CAPS USERNAME symdrome. A small >piece of code in radiusd.c compares the original username with the >adjusted username, and inserts a User-Name attribute if they differ. > >Thanks for the suggestion! > >-Phil > >> ---- >> Jim Howard jhoward@lyceum.com >> Sr Network Engineer 404.248.1733 >> Lyceum Internet <A HREF="http://www.lyceum.com/">http://www.lyceum.com/</A> -------------------------------------------------------------- David Mitton 508-670-8888 Main Consulting Engineer 508-916-4570 Direct Bay Networks, Internet/Telcom BG 508-916-4789 FAX Billerica, MA 01821 dmitton@baynetworks.com ++ Ascend Users Mailing List ++ To unsubscribe: send unsubscribe to ascend-users-request@bungi.com To get FAQ'd: <<A HREF="http://www.shore.net/~dreaming/ascend-faq">http://www.shore.net/~dreaming/ascend-faq</A>> or <<A HREF="ftp://ftp.shore.net/members/dreaming/ascend-faq.txt">ftp://ftp.shore.net/members/dreaming/ascend-faq.txt</A>> </PRE> <!--X-MsgBody-End--> <!--X-Follow-Ups--> <!--X-Follow-Ups-End--> <!--X-References--> <HR> <STRONG>References</STRONG>: <UL> <LI><STRONG><A HREF="msg01336.html">Re: (ASCEND) RADIUS unmangling names</A></STRONG></LI> <UL> <LI><EM>From</EM>: Phillip Vandry <vandry@Mlink.NET></LI> </UL> </UL> <!--X-References-End--> <!--X-BotPNI--> <HR> <UL> <LI>Prev by Date: <STRONG><A HREF="msg01342.html">RE: (ASCEND) Win95 and MAX 2000 v. 5.0A</A></STRONG> </LI> <LI>Next by Date: <STRONG><A HREF="msg01340.html">(ASCEND) arghh...</A></STRONG> </LI> <LI>Prev by thread: <STRONG><A HREF="msg01336.html">Re: (ASCEND) RADIUS unmangling names</A></STRONG> </LI> <LI>Next by thread: <STRONG><A HREF="msg01337.html">(ASCEND) more p130 tftp bugs</A></STRONG> </LI> <LI>Index(es): <UL> <LI><A HREF="maillist.html#01339"><STRONG>Main</STRONG></A></LI> <LI><A HREF="thrd52.html#01339"><STRONG>Thread</STRONG></A></LI> </UL> </LI> </UL> <!--X-BotPNI-End--> <!--X-User-Footer--> <!--X-User-Footer-End--> </BODY> </HTML>