[H-GEN] Radius for LINUX
A Bruce In The Land Of The Bruces
brucec at humbug.org.au
Tue Jun 2 01:10:15 EDT 1998
On Tue, 2 Jun 1998, Luke Grant wrote:
> ok ppl,
> My bos wants to set up a Radius server and client for Linux. Now i
> dont know a thing about this program...in fact i didnt even know it
> exested till yesterday.
>
> So i have two options...
>
> 1. Ask for help... If it is an easy task (which somehow i doubt) then
> could someone please point me in the right direction.
Well, since you're running Linux, you most probably have PAM already
installed on your system (comes with RH by default, and I think an
optional extra for debian)...
PAM (Pluggable Authentication Modules) has a nice lot of things you can do
with it, including querying a radius server for authentication requests
(for shell logins or ftp etc).
As for running a radius server, why, we can do that as well. Grab the
latest release of Merit Radius and it compiles (mostly cleanly) on Linux,
and Bob's your Aunties live-in lover ;)
PAM - http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/libs/pam/
Merit - ftp://ftp.merit.edu/radius/
Setting 'em up? thats what the docs are for (main thing to get right are
the shared secrets)
--==--
Bruce.
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