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From: John Capo <jc@irbs.com>
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Subject: Re: TACACS or RADIUS
To: swaits@pr.erau.edu (Stephen Waits)
Date: Thu, 26 Oct 1995 18:40:38 -0400 (EDT)
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Stephen Waits writes:
> 
> On Thu, 26 Oct 1995, John Capo wrote:
> 
> > I'm not sure what you mean by a PPP daemon using the FreeBSD password
> > file.
> 
> He means that the /etc/passwd file will be used for login as well as PPP 
> PAP/CHAP authentication.  
> 
> I'm interested in this as well if anyone has pulled it off!
> 

That's the way radiusd works.  The terminal server talks to radiusd
and radiusd uses getpwent().

John Capo
IRBS Engineering                      High performance FreeBSD systems