Re: anti-multiple-login patches for radiusd

William Bulley (web@merit.edu)
Sun, 15 Oct 1995 16:38:02 -0400 (EDT)

According to Chris B. Wilson, VectorNet:
>
> Well, only problem is we're currently using the SCP (or whatever its
> called) patch (user.ppp, user.slip, etc), and would we be able to run
> that under the Merit version?

Well, you know my position on that one. I have long held that the Merit
solution (pppuser, slipuser, dumbuser) is sufficient and predates all
those SCP thingys out there (sorry guys, but that's just me :-) a Merit
person talking). But that said, I do have the diffs for the SCP stuff
(thanks to someone whose name escapes me) and I am thinking about putting
them in a future release (they're not there now). If these are truly two
solutions to two _different_ problems, then I will stand corrected...

So, to answer your question, today you can't do the SCP thing with Merit
RADIUS and therefore you can't take advantage of the LAS stuff. I am not
going to force you to change your configurations (that's why I have given
serious consideration to the SCP patches for a future release of Merit
RADIUS). I just haven't had time to do all this _and_ still fight all
the local Merit fires...

What is the real shame here, is that there are now two "standard" ways
to do the SCP thing. Having to have both is both confusing and wasteful
of people's time, etc. But then I have the same complaints about those
little endian and big endian wars, too! Sigh... :-)

Regards,

web...

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