From owner-freebsd-isp Tue Nov 19 23:20:11 1996 Return-Path: owner-isp Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id XAA10245 for isp-outgoing; Tue, 19 Nov 1996 23:20:11 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.webspan.net (mail.webspan.net [206.154.70.7]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id XAA10212 for ; Tue, 19 Nov 1996 23:20:06 -0800 (PST) Received: from orion.webspan.net (orion.webspan.net [206.154.70.5]) by mail.webspan.net (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id CAA04609; Wed, 20 Nov 1996 02:18:22 -0500 (EST) Received: from orion.webspan.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by orion.webspan.net (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id CAA06952; Wed, 20 Nov 1996 02:18:22 -0500 (EST) To: Michael Dillon cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.org From: "Gary Palmer" Subject: Re: Stupid question no 10101 In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 14 Nov 1996 18:51:16 PST." Date: Wed, 20 Nov 1996 02:18:22 -0500 Message-ID: <6950.848474302@orion.webspan.net> Sender: owner-isp@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Michael Dillon wrote in message ID : > On Thu, 14 Nov 1996, Gary Palmer wrote: > > > If you're an ISP, and need to share password info between machines, > > but not keep identical info on the machines, how do you handle it? NIS > > I think the best way is to have two machines with complete password info > and run RADIUSD on them. Then use hacked versions of login, ftpd, popper > etc. on the other machines to authenticate via RADIUS. On shell account > machines, hack login to add the user to the local passwd database for the > duration of their session and hack getty to yank them out again when they > log off or get disconnected. Hmm. The question is how well does this work (say) for sendmail delivery too? Or, since the development you are talking about is taking place on linux, is it qmail? Gary -- Gary Palmer FreeBSD Core Team Member FreeBSD: Turning PC's into workstations. See http://www.FreeBSD.ORG/ for info