Strip-User-Name

    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 set to Yes the usernames would be logged and accounted without any prefixes/suffixes.

A user may have several usernames for different kind of services. In this case differentiating the usernames by their prefixes and stripping them off before accounting would help keeping 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 SQL database logs in as `johns.ppp'. He then is provided the PPP service, and his PPP session is accounted under username `johns'. Later on, he logs in as `johns.slip'. In this case he is provided the SLIP service and again his session is accounted under his real username `johns'.

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