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Date:      Tue, 10 Mar 1998 01:09:45 -0600 (CST)
From:      Erik E Rantapaa <rantapaa@uswest.net>
To:        ken@mui.net
Cc:        hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: radius?
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.91.980310005149.28042A-100000@tahiti.oss.uswest.net>
In-Reply-To: <199803092306.NAA16334@rocksalt.mui.net>

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On Mon, 9 Mar 1998 ken@mui.net wrote:

> There are going to be 2 locations.  Site A and site B have 2 
> different user databases.  How does one set things up so that if they 
> aren't in site A, then it passes it to site B?  or is there a better 
> way to handle this?

The easiest way I've found is to merge the password files.

Helpful tip: when building large db file (version 1.85), set the cache 
size (in the openinfo structure) to be as large as possible. The optimal 
seems to be a little less than the final size of the db file (oddly 
enough, having a cache larger than the db degrades performance 
slightly). This will greatly improve the speed of pwd_mkdb and yp_mkdb.

The same holds true for DB2.

> Does it have something to do with Radius?

??? Radius doesn't have anything to do with Unix user authentication.

There are radius servers which will proxy requests, but it's not really
anything close to logically merging two user databases.

Regards,

Erik Rantapaa
rantapaa@uswest.net


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