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UAC module

UAC (User Agent Client) module provides some basic UAC functionalities like FROM header manipulation (anonymization) or client authentication.

Known limitations in this version:

  • authentication does not support qop auth-int, just qop auth;
  • CSeq not increased during authentication - the response may be rejected.

The following modules must be loaded before this module:

  • TM - Transaction Module
  • RR - Record-Route Module, but only if restore mode for FROM URI is set to “auto”.

The following libraries or applications must be installed before running OpenSIPS with this module loaded:

  • None

Name of Record-Route header parameter that will be used to store (encoded) the original FROM URI.

This parameter is optional, it’s default value being “vsf”.

Set rr_store_param parameter
...
modparam("uac","rr_store_param","my_param")
...

There are 3 mode of restoring the original FROM URI:

  • “none” - no information about original URI is stored; restoretion is not possible.
  • “manual” - all following replies will be restored, but not also the sequential requests - this must be manually updated based on original URI.
  • “auto” - all sequential requests and replies will be automatically updated based on stored original URI.

This parameter is optional, it’s default value being “auto”.

Set from_restore_mode parameter
...
modparam("uac","from_restore_mode","auto")
...

String password to be used to encrypt the RR storing paramter. If empty, no encryption will be used.

Default value of this parameter is empty.

Set from_passwd parameter
...
modparam("uac","from_passwd","my_secret_passwd")
...

Contains a multiple definition of credentials used to perform authentication.

This parameter is required if UAC authentication is used.

Set credential parameter
...
modparam("uac","credential","username:domain:password")
...

The definition of an AVP that might contain the realm to be used to perform authentication.

If you define it, you also need to define “auth_username_avp” (auth username avp id) and “auth_username_avp” (auth password avp id).

Set auth_realm_avp parameter
...
modparam("uac","auth_realm_avp","$avp(i:10)")
...

The definition of an AVP that might contain the username to be used to perform authentication.

If you define it, you also need to define “auth_realm_avp” (auth realm avp id) and “auth_username_avp” (auth password avp id).

Set auth_username_avp parameter
...
modparam("uac","auth_username_avp","$avp(i:11)")
...

The definition of an AVP that might contain the password to be used to perform authentication.

If you define it, you also need to define “auth_password_avp” (auth password avp id) and “auth_username_avp” (auth password avp id).

Set auth_password_avp parameter
...
modparam("uac","auth_password_avp","$avp(i:12)")
...

Replace in FROM header the display name and the URI part.

display and URI parameters can include pseudo-variables.

This function can be used from REQUEST_ROUTE.

uac_replace_from usage
...
# replace both display and uri
uac_replace_from("$avp(s:display)","$avp(s:uri)");
# replace only display and do not touch uri
uac_replace_from("batman","");
# remove display and replace uri
uac_replace_from("","sip:robin@gotham.org");
# remove display and do not touch uri
uac_replace_from("","");
...

Replace in FROM header the URI part without altering the display name.

URI parameter can include pseudo-variables.

This function can be used from REQUEST_ROUTE.

uac_replace_from usage
...
uac_replace_from("sip:batman@gotham.org");
...

This function will check if the FROM URI was modified and will use the information stored in header parameter to restore the original FROM URI value.

This function can be used from REQUEST_ROUTE.

uac_restore_from usage
...
uac_restore_from();
...

This function can be called only from failure route and will build the authentication response header and insert it into the request without sending anything.

This function can be used from FAILURE_ROUTE.

uac_auth usage
...
uac_auth();
...

Top contributors by DevScore(1), authored commits(2) and lines added/removed(3)

#NameDevScoreCommitsLines++Lines—
1.Bogdan-Andrei Iancu (@bogdan-iancu)75393213520
2.Daniel-Constantin Mierla (@miconda)141111973
3.Stefan Darius (@dariusstefan)8434051
4.Andreas Heise73105129
5.Elena-Ramona Modroiu428544
6.Henning Westerholt (@henningw)4299
7.Razvan Crainea (@razvancrainea)3122
8.Dan Pascu (@danpascu)3122
9.Konstantin Bokarius3125
10.Sergio Gutierrez3111

All remaining contributors: Jesus Rodrigues, Edson Gellert Schubert.

(1) DevScore = author_commits + author_lines_added / (project_lines_added / project_commits) + author_lines_deleted / (project_lines_deleted / project_commits)

(2) including any documentation-related commits, excluding merge commits

(3) ignoring whitespace edits, renamed files and auto-generated files

#NameCommit Activity
1.Stefan Darius (@dariusstefan)Jun 2026 - Jul 2026
2.Razvan Crainea (@razvancrainea)Jun 2026 - Jun 2026
3.Sergio GutierrezNov 2008 - Nov 2008
4.Dan Pascu (@danpascu)Nov 2008 - Nov 2008
5.Bogdan-Andrei Iancu (@bogdan-iancu)Jun 2005 - Jul 2008
6.Daniel-Constantin Mierla (@miconda)Nov 2006 - Mar 2008
7.Konstantin BokariusMar 2008 - Mar 2008
8.Edson Gellert SchubertFeb 2008 - Feb 2008
9.Henning Westerholt (@henningw)Aug 2007 - Dec 2007
10.Jesus RodriguesDec 2007 - Dec 2007

All remaining contributors: Andreas Heise, Elena-Ramona Modroiu.

(1) including any documentation-related commits, excluding merge commits

Last edited by: Razvan Crainea (@razvancrainea), Bogdan-Andrei Iancu (@bogdan-iancu), Daniel-Constantin Mierla (@miconda), Konstantin Bokarius, Edson Gellert Schubert, Jesus Rodrigues, Elena-Ramona Modroiu.

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