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Date:      Mon, 14 Apr 1997 18:04:45 -0500 (CDT)
From:      Adrian Gonzalez <agonzalez@starbase.globalpc.net>
To:        freebsd-isp@freebsd.org
Subject:   RADIUS Menus and USR Total Control Netserver
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSD/.3.91.970414174040.6759G@starbase.globalpc.net>

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Hi I have a question

We run a local ISP, and have three pools of 16 modems, two of which are 
rackmount BOCA modems (2x16), connected via Digiboards to a BSD box.  The 
third is a US Robotics Total Control Netserver.  Now, the problem is I 
need to support some sort of login menu on both... like:

login: foo
password: ***

Welcome.. blah blah

choose your service
p)  ppp
s)  slip

Response:

I've tested two versions of RADIUS, one from Ascend, and one from 
Livingston.  The Livingston one works great with menus, but is to be used 
only with Livingston equipment.  I downloaded and compiled the Merit 
version of RADIUS from the ports collection, but it doesn't seem to 
support menus.

Has anybody modified the Merit version of RADIUS to allow this?  I would 
like to use Merit RADIUS because I can get the source code for it, as I 
need to tweak some minor details, however, adding menu support would be a 
major pain.  In fact, I would be happy if I could just display some text 
after the user has logged in, and ask a dumb string from the user.  The 
reason for this is that before we got the USR NetServer, most of our 
users had dial scripts that waited for a shell prompt and sent the 'ppp' 
command there.  We don't really have SLIP users anymore, so I could 
really care less what the user types, but the prompt has to be there, or 
else we're going to have to start a massive dial script modifying 
'campaign', and being that our average user has no clue as to how to go 
about this, it could turn out to be quite troublesome.

As for USR, I've yet to get an answer for them on wether they have ported 
their RADIUS server to FreeBSD yet, but everything I've read in the 
mailing list archives suggests they haven't.

Thanks for any help you can provide.

-Adrian Gonzalez
-System Administrator
-GPC Net



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