Re: Calling an authorization script

System Administration (sysad@future.cnmnet.com)
Fri, 15 Nov 1996 11:27:32 -0600 (CST)

Howdy,

First guess is yes but we ran into problems interfacing perl with the
portmaster. You might want to consider using an expect script. Expect is
useful for things like telnet and ftp as it fools the system into
thinking its an actual user.

Rob

On Fri, 15 Nov 1996, Samer Bohsali wrote:

> Hi,
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> Can I call an external perl script to perform authorization?
> We're an ISP, and we need to make sure the client has enough credits to let him in. We perform such a test by a perl script that connects to the customer database. Can this script be called by the Radius server? The username/password can be verified and then proper authorization will be done based on the return value/output of the script.
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> Regards,
> Samer Bohsali
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