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On Thu, 20 Nov 1997, Edward S. Marshall wrote:

> On 20 Nov 1997 tqbf@joshua.enteract.com wrote:
> > 
> > Why is this a "hack"? 
> > 
> Bingo. I think the problem a lot of people have is the suggestion that
> RADIUS be used for anything other than *just* authentication, when in fact
> looking at it as only that is limiting the usefulness of it. People scream
> "hack" at the mere thought of using RADIUS in some manner than it is
> currently used.
> 
> The original idea, of simply merging in a call to "sendmail -q" (or
> equivilent) when a particular user logs in, is a hack. But a more
> generalized idea of executing external programs upon particular events is
> perfectly acceptable, IMHO.
> 
I think a very tidy way of doing it would be to have radius check for a
<username>.script file, and if it exists then running it.. that would seem
very unhacky to me.. or there could be something like a new variable in
the users file that specifies a script name.. Hell, maybe it's something
that Livingston might want to pop in there themselves :)..

-Jeff