From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jan 22 09:04:15 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id JAA26832 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 22 Jan 1996 09:04:15 -0800 (PST) Received: from merit.edu (merit.edu [35.1.1.42]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id JAA26812 for ; Mon, 22 Jan 1996 09:04:12 -0800 (PST) Received: from ohm.merit.edu (ohm.merit.edu [198.108.60.65]) by merit.edu (8.7.3/merit-2.0) with ESMTP id MAA27653; Mon, 22 Jan 1996 12:04:04 -0500 (EST) From: William Bulley Received: (web@localhost) by ohm.merit.edu (8.6.9/8.6.5) id MAA26133; Mon, 22 Jan 1996 12:13:32 -0500 Message-Id: <199601221713.MAA26133@ohm.merit.edu> Subject: Re: FreeBSD and Radius To: kallio@beeblebrox.pccc.jyu.fi (Seppo Kallio) Date: Mon, 22 Jan 1996 12:13:31 -0500 (EST) Cc: philw@main.abacus.ca, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: from "Seppo Kallio" at Jan 22, 96 03:36:40 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk According to Seppo Kallio: > > On Sun, 21 Jan 1996, Philip White wrote: > > > Maybe I can start another thread here? ;-) > > > > In all sincerity though, has anyone any ideas on utilizing Radius and > > FreeBSD better? I use Radius in conjunction with the Livingston > > Portmaster(30 port). I use the "pmcommand" script package but this > > doesn't have provisions for things like adding multiple users and such. > > I noticed that the software "pminstall" that comes with the Portmaster > > doesn't have a port for FreeBSD, anyone ever port it over? If anyone has > > some convenient scripts (perl5 or otherwise) to share? > > We use FreeBSD 2.1 unix passwds and usernames with merit-radius software. > + I have modified it so, that one can give username@host.slip or > username@host.ppp to select ppp or slip There is a version of RADIUS known as the Merit distribution which a lot of folks find very useful and highly configurable and customizable. I am placing a new release of it on our FTP server this week (with luck!) Regards, web... -- William Bulley, N8NXN Senior Systems Research Programmer Merit Network Inc. Domain: web@merit.edu 4251 Plymouth Road MaBell: (313) 764-9993 Ann Arbor, Michigan 48105-2785 Fax: (313) 747-3185