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Date:      Mon, 3 Feb 1997 13:35:41 +0900 (JST)
From:      Michael Hancock <michaelh@cet.co.jp>
To:        Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
Cc:        David Nugent <davidn@unique.usn.blaze.net.au>, terry@lambert.org, joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   login.conf - radius client (was Re: getty patches)
Message-ID:  <Pine.SV4.3.95.970203132957.6439A-100000@parkplace.cet.co.jp>
In-Reply-To: <199702030348.OAA02656@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au>

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On Mon, 3 Feb 1997, Michael Smith wrote:

> David Nugent stands accused of saying:
> > 
> > > I'm not aware that the current login.conf code is capable of running
> > > the commercial authenticators... I'd be happy to be corrected.
> > 
> > You're quite correct. The reason that authentication is not
> > available is lack of information, pure and simple. I'm still
> > waiting for information from either/both sef and BSDI on it,
> > and how the API is intended to work. There are quite a few
> > ambiguities to resolve. Currently login(1) includes the 
> > relevant code to support them, but it is not compiled in.
> 
> I am _particularly_ interested in this, as I have a couple of (paying)
> ISP customers who very much want to integrate user logins to BSD
> machines with their radius authentication environment.
> 

This would be very interesting indeed.  Centralized authentication to a
radiusd box for everything; an ASCEND box, a FreeBSD PPP server, a
FreeBSD client PC, etc.

Regards,


Mike Hancock




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