From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Apr 22 19:55:42 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id TAA28620 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 22 Apr 1997 19:55:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id TAA28607; Tue, 22 Apr 1997 19:55:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from msmith@localhost) by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.8.5/8.7.3) id MAA18881; Wed, 23 Apr 1997 12:25:14 +0930 (CST) From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199704230255.MAA18881@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: Need a common passwd file among machines In-Reply-To: from Bradley Dunn at "Apr 22, 97 09:35:40 pm" To: bradley@dunn.org (Bradley Dunn) Date: Wed, 23 Apr 1997 12:25:14 +0930 (CST) Cc: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL28 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Bradley Dunn stands accused of saying: > On Mon, 21 Apr 1997, Michael Smith wrote: > > > "So what" is that the new Livingston code is Radius-2 compliant, and has > > lots of nice features. > > What is "Radius-2 compliant"? AFAIK the only compliance that matters is > RFC2138. The code at > ftp://ftp.merit.edu/radius/releases/radius.23c.basic.tar.gz > is free and is nearly compliant. (Actually the Livingston code is not > compliant with the RFC either because they used port 1645 when it was > already assigned.) I'll grant that the Merit server (which amazingly I only just ran into) looks worthwhile. > The new features of the Livingston code are basically superficial junk > like user menus and prefix/suffix support. I was most interested in the hooks that they were claiming for things like counted user access and backending for accounting databases. I haven't studied the Merit server for long enough to know if it covers this already. -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control. (ph) +61-8-8267-3493 [[ ]] Unix hardware collector. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[