From owner-freebsd-current Sun Feb 2 21:07:13 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id VAA08652 for current-outgoing; Sun, 2 Feb 1997 21:07:13 -0800 (PST) Received: from caliban.dihelix.com (caliban.mrtc.org [199.4.33.251]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id VAA08646 for ; Sun, 2 Feb 1997 21:07:09 -0800 (PST) Received: (from langfod@localhost) by caliban.dihelix.com (8.8.4/8.8.3) id TAA06653; Sun, 2 Feb 1997 19:06:41 -1000 (HST) Message-Id: <199702030506.TAA06653@caliban.dihelix.com> Subject: Re: login.conf - radius client (was Re: getty patches) In-Reply-To: from Michael Hancock at "Feb 3, 97 01:35:41 pm" To: michaelh@cet.co.jp (Michael Hancock) Date: Sun, 2 Feb 1997 19:06:41 -1000 (HST) Cc: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, davidn@unique.usn.blaze.net.au, terry@lambert.org, joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de, freebsd-current@freebsd.org From: "David Langford" X-blank-line: This space intentionaly left blank. X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL30 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-current@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >> 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. I have also seen versions of POP servers that can use msql for user lists. 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??? -David Langford langfod@dihelix.com