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Date:      Tue, 4 Feb 1997 19:43:46 -0700 (MST)
From:      Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
To:        michaelh@cet.co.jp (Michael Hancock)
Cc:        langfod@dihelix.com, msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, davidn@unique.usn.blaze.net.au, terry@lambert.org, joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de, freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: login.conf - radius client (was Re: getty patches)
Message-ID:  <199702050243.TAA13943@phaeton.artisoft.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SV4.3.95.970203140934.6753A-100000@parkplace.cet.co.jp> from "Michael Hancock" at Feb 3, 97 02:15:33 pm

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> > The question I've also had was with regards to sendmail. 
> > How does sendmail know that users exist if one uses RADIUS or some
> > other "non-traditional" way of user authentication???

[ ... ]

> [Ideal solution]
> 
> It's completely transparent to sendmail.  The authentication calls do the
> right thing depending on which authentication method is used.

Yes.  You make an .so file and put it in the list of account stores,
along with the "passwd.so" and "NIS.so" files that would be there by
default.  The list is an interface agregation point.


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present
or previous employers.


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