Re: Radius ? Associating an authentication host with a user?
William Bulley (web@merit.edu)
Fri, 20 Oct 1995 10:27:18 -0400 (EDT)
According to Mike Fox:
>
> I have a few users who have logins on unix hosts that do not
> use NIS and these users need to be able to login to these boxes
> via dial-up and radius. The radius daemon is running on a box
> that is a NIS client. I have entries in /etc/raddb/users like
> this for those people with accounts on the non-NIS boxes:
>
> This is difficult to maintain as all users defined
> like this must maintain two passwords - one for NIS
> for the first login attempt and then their other passwd
> on their own host for the second login attempt.
>
> Is there some mechanism to associate an "authentication
> host" in the /etc/raddb/users file for these types of
> accounts or get radius to skip the first authentication
> attempt?
This may not be relevant to Mike's question, but I have
received some diffs for NIS/YP hooks in Merit RADIUS 2.4.x
and I have plans to incorporate those into a future release.
Regards,
web...
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