gawk vs sql

Date: Tue, 24 Aug 1999 08:37:53 -0300 (ADT)
From: Michael Smith <michael@csuite.ns.ca>
To: John Nemeth <jnemeth@victoria.tc.ca>
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On Tue, 24 Aug 1999, John Nemeth wrote:

>      Actually the main reason for using an SQL backend was because
> Michael wanted to use PHP3 for some administrative scripts, and
> supposedly PHP3 isn't capable of handling namedb but it has built-in
> support for mysql.  Personally, I think this is a rather silly reason
> to change the entire backend.

I agree. It's not hard to parse a textfile in PHP.

>      As for RADIUS and PPP support, it is irrelevant.  Whether or not a
> user is allowed to use PPP is simply another field in the namedb
> record.  The front end code has to be written to display and manipulate
> that field, but this would need to be done regardless of what the
> backend is.  The same goes for making an interface between the RADIUS
> server and the backend.

We have our RADIUS server on a separate machine entirely from our text
users, so I'm not sure if anything we come up with will be easily
integratable back into CSuite, but I think if we do it the usual CSuite
way (by putting spoolfiles into, say, $CS_ROOT/private/ppp and
NFS-mounting that on the RADIUS server), it should be doable.

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