mpd and external authentication

[Emil Filipov]

Hi list:)

Has anyone used mpd with external authentication like this one (mpd 
manual here):
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# mpd.secrets configuration file
# An external password access program

gregory "!/usr/local/etc/mpd/get_passwd.sh"
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It is a very convinient way of authenticating users I admit . However 
there is a major disadvantage - you cannot (according the documentation; 
will be glad if I'm wrong) assign ip address/range to the authenticated 
user. You will need to use RADIUS authentication, in order to do so.

However, I don't feel like deploying RADIUS just to have a simple and 
convinient way of authenticating my VPN users against a database.

So my question is: has someone of you , guys, patched mpd, so that it 
can understand ip address/range ardument upon successful authentication? 
Don't want to re-discover the wheel you know. Also, Archie :), if you 
read this, could you share your thoughts about it?

TIA,
Emil Filipov