Subj : The new Radius, RFC
To   : mark lewis
From : Paul Quinn
Date : Thu Nov 27 2014 10:14:38

Hi! mark,

On 26/11/2014 9:27 AM, you wrote:

 PQ>> Thanks to the FTSC, Radius desperately needs to be updated to
 PQ>> disassociate the Txy flags from the ",U," prefix.

 ml> that change by the FTSC was correcting a clerical error... the problem
 ml> that change lead to in radius comes from too strict coding that's not
 ml> really necessary...

Yes, a clerical correction.  Totally unnecessary and thoroughly at odds with 
the raison d'etre of the FTSC.  You will note that they had to dismantle 
'current practice' on a number (150?) nodes in order to comply with the 
clerical fix.

In so doing, all functionality in Argus-family mailers was broken.  I still 
have a standing question in the FTSC public echo on 'which mailers would be 
broken, with no change' (IIRC).  Which was largely unanswered except for yours, 
explaining FroDo's operation...

 ml> eg: frontdoor didn't have a problem with the change because flags are
 ml> flags and it doesn't care about the ,U, separator field denoting user
 ml> flags...

I asked approximately the same question in the Z2 sysop chatter echo, and was 
immediately chased out by the Z2C.  (Rightly so, since I had no permission to 
post there.)  I did get a netmail reply from one NC, and I challenged him to 
find *any* software in use which _uses_ the Txy flags per the FTSC change.  
Nothing.  Nada.

Their 'clerical fix' was for naught, in practice.

 ml> the fix in the code is simple... just comment out the line specifically
 ml> looking for the ",U," field ;)

I had a good look with Total Commander for about 10mins and gave up after a 
negative result.  :(

Cheers,
Paul.

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