From owner-freebsd-current Sun Feb 2 23:49:09 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id XAA13902 for current-outgoing; Sun, 2 Feb 1997 23:49:09 -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 XAA13895 for ; Sun, 2 Feb 1997 23:49:06 -0800 (PST) Received: (from msmith@localhost) by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.8.2/8.7.3) id SAA04838; Mon, 3 Feb 1997 18:17:39 +1030 (CST) From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199702030747.SAA04838@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: login.conf - radius client (was Re: getty patches) In-Reply-To: <199702030506.TAA06653@caliban.dihelix.com> from David Langford at "Feb 2, 97 07:06:41 pm" To: langfod@dihelix.com (David Langford) Date: Mon, 3 Feb 1997 18:17:39 +1030 (CST) Cc: michaelh@cet.co.jp, 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 David Langford stands accused of saying: > > 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??? You've got to have local user accounts on the sendmail machine for mail to be delivered. The neatest answer I've seen yet is to have the Radius daemon use the local password database on the same system that sendmail runs on. Any other technique is going to involved hacking either sendmail or the pwd.h routines as with NIS. > -David Langford -- ]] 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 [[