Date: Mon, 01 Feb 1999 12:16:40 +0000 From: Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org> To: John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com> Cc: Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org>, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/lib/libradius - Imported sources Message-ID: <199902011216.MAA05403@keep.lan.Awfulhak.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 31 Jan 1999 14:48:16 PST." <XFMail.990131144816.jdp@polstra.com>
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> Brian Somers wrote:
> >> Ppp should (obviously) use PAM, not the Radius library directly.
> >
> > Looking into things a bit, PAM and RADIUS are different things. PAM
> > only does authentication AFAIK.
>
> PAM can do accounting and other stuff too, but none of our current modules
> support it. Note, however, that accounting isn't implemented in libradius
> either -- it just does authentication (unless you added accounting support
> when I wasn't looking :-).
I was thinking along the lines of the user information that the
RADIUS server returns (IP number, routing info etc). PAM doesn't
seem to do this (from looking at pam_appl.h) - it just seems to say
yay or nay WRT authenticating the client.
> John
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> John Polstra jdp@polstra.com
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