From owner-freebsd-isp Thu Feb 15 07:28:03 1996 Return-Path: owner-isp Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id HAA04111 for isp-outgoing; Thu, 15 Feb 1996 07:28:03 -0800 (PST) Received: from merit.edu (merit.edu [35.1.1.42]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id HAA04087 for ; Thu, 15 Feb 1996 07:27:59 -0800 (PST) Received: from ohm.merit.edu (ohm.merit.edu [198.108.60.65]) by merit.edu (8.7.3/merit-2.0) with ESMTP id KAA20409; Thu, 15 Feb 1996 10:27:23 -0500 (EST) From: William Bulley Received: (web@localhost) by ohm.merit.edu (8.6.9/8.6.5) id KAA25273; Thu, 15 Feb 1996 10:36:57 -0500 Message-Id: <199602151536.KAA25273@ohm.merit.edu> Subject: Re: RADIUS To: map@iphil.net (Miguel A.L. Paraz) Date: Thu, 15 Feb 1996 10:36:57 -0500 (EST) Cc: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org, andrew@nash.pubnix.net In-Reply-To: <199602150444.MAA08392@marikit.iphil.net> from "Miguel A.L. Paraz" at Feb 15, 96 12:44:10 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-isp@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk According to Miguel A.L. Paraz: > > I would appreciate advice on how to use such a system where > user accounts are divided between different boxes. Would > NIS/NIS+ do it? Or perhaps, a distributed RADIUS system > like in the (complicated) Merit radiusd? I would advise against NIS/NIS+/YP due to the security concerns therein. I would advise in favor of the distributed (proxy) approach used by Merit RADIUS (but some may say I'm biased...) :-) I, of course, would never say that, but you may, if you like. ;^) Regards, web... -- William Bulley, N8NXN Senior Systems Research Programmer Merit Network Inc. Domain: web@merit.edu 4251 Plymouth Road MaBell: (313) 764-9993 Ann Arbor, Michigan 48105-2785 Fax: (313) 747-3185