From owner-freebsd-current Sun Feb 2 23:46:59 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id XAA13728 for current-outgoing; Sun, 2 Feb 1997 23:46:59 -0800 (PST) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id XAA13723 for ; Sun, 2 Feb 1997 23:46:54 -0800 (PST) Received: (from msmith@localhost) by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.8.2/8.7.3) id SAA04809; Mon, 3 Feb 1997 18:15:35 +1030 (CST) From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199702030745.SAA04809@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> 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: Mon, 3 Feb 1997 18:15:34 +1030 (CST) 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 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-current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Michael Hancock stands accused of saying: > > > > 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. Yup. Basically NIS without NIS. There are a pile of other benefits in that you can (theoretically) backend stuff off the Radius server to manage your accounting, etc. One _big_ lose is that whilst the Radius-1 daemon was free, Livingston's license on the Radius-2 server is "only with Livingson hardware". One of my contacts said that a Liv. sales rep claimed that he could have the CD "for about US$1500 or so". Does this piss you off just a little? The whole "ride the free software thing and then gouge all the committed users" scenario is becoming _very_ annoying. > Mike Hancock -- ]] 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 [[