From owner-freebsd-current Mon Feb 3 02:51:20 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id CAA22570 for current-outgoing; Mon, 3 Feb 1997 02:51:20 -0800 (PST) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id CAA22559 for ; Mon, 3 Feb 1997 02:51:16 -0800 (PST) Received: (from msmith@localhost) by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.8.2/8.7.3) id VAA05506; Mon, 3 Feb 1997 21:20:17 +1030 (CST) From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199702031050.VAA05506@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: getty patches In-Reply-To: <199702031025.UAA22529@al.imforei.apana.org.au> from Peter Childs at "Feb 3, 97 08:55:31 pm" To: pjchilds@imforei.apana.org.au (Peter Childs) Date: Mon, 3 Feb 1997 21:20:16 +1030 (CST) Cc: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL28 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-current@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Peter Childs stands accused of saying: > > This interests me. I've seen the radiusd port, which I take it is > the radius daemon management stuff.. and i've seen some code that This is the radius-1 server from Livingston. There's an Ascend-hacked version as well, which is a shade uglee, but perhaps a little more recent. > lets a PC+lots-of-serial-ports look like a radius portmaster... Erk. Not really my scene. > If all this code is available then a quick hack plug for at least > login, if not most of the passwd/group functions, shouldn't be > too hard??? The current scope of my plans includes login/rlogind/telnetd/ppp/pppd, via an interface similar to 'iruserok()'. If the login auth stuff is trying to provide this sort of thing, then it makes sense to use that instead. > to difficult? From what I understand of David's work he's pretty > much getting their for the framework+guts, patron brings fillings.. > > Am I missing something to this :) No, that's basically it. > Peter Childs --- http://www.imforei.apana.org.au/~pjchilds -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control. (ph) +61-8-8267-3493 [[ ]] Unix hardware collector. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[