From owner-cvs-all Mon Feb 1 04:50:46 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id EAA15618 for cvs-all-outgoing; Mon, 1 Feb 1999 04:50:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from awfulhak.org (awfulhak.force9.co.uk [195.166.136.63]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id EAA15612; Mon, 1 Feb 1999 04:50:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from brian@Awfulhak.org) Received: from keep.lan.Awfulhak.org (keep.lan.Awfulhak.org [172.16.0.8]) by awfulhak.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA09330; Mon, 1 Feb 1999 12:50:23 GMT (envelope-from brian@Awfulhak.org) Received: from keep.lan.Awfulhak.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by keep.lan.Awfulhak.org (8.9.2/8.9.2) with ESMTP id MAA05403; Mon, 1 Feb 1999 12:16:41 GMT (envelope-from brian@keep.lan.Awfulhak.org) Message-Id: <199902011216.MAA05403@keep.lan.Awfulhak.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: John Polstra cc: Brian Somers , cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, Mike Smith Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/lib/libradius - Imported sources In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 31 Jan 1999 14:48:16 PST." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 01 Feb 1999 12:16:40 +0000 From: Brian Somers Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk > > 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 > --- > John Polstra jdp@polstra.com > John D. Polstra & Co., Inc. Seattle, Washington USA > "Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public." > -- H. L. Mencken -- Brian Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour ! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message