13.3.26 Strip-User-Name

ATTRIBUTE Strip-User-Name 1035 integer

VALUE      Strip-User-Name   No                   0       
VALUE      Strip-User-Name   Yes                  1       

The value of Strip-User-Name indicates whether Radius should strip any prefixes/suffixes specified in the user's profile from the user name. When it is set to Yes, the user names will be logged and accounted without any prefixes or suffixes.

A user may have several user names for different kind of services. In this case differentiating the user names by their prefixes and stripping them off before accounting would help keep accounting records consistent.

For example, let's suppose the ‘users’ file contains

DEFAULT Suffix = ".ppp",
                Strip-User-Name = Yes,
                Auth-Type = SQL
        Service-Type = Framed-User,
                Framed-Protocol = PPP

DEFAULT Suffix = ".slip",
                Strip-User-Name = Yes,
                Auth-Type = SQL
        Service-Type = Framed-User,
                Framed-Protocol = SLIP

Now, user ‘johns’, having a valid account in the SQL database, logs in as ‘johns.ppp’. She then is provided the PPP service, and her PPP session is accounted under user name ‘johns’. Later on, she logs in as ‘johns.slip’. In this case she is provided the SLIP service and again her session is accounted under her real user name ‘johns’.

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