RADIUS porting....start with Merit!

David Carmean (dave@west.net)
Fri, 3 Nov 1995 09:53:38 -0800 (PST)

I'd like to suggest that if anybody is going to port RADIUS
to anything, that they start from the Merit distribution. Almost
*infinitely* more extensible, IMO.

Access control by terminal server IP/hostname (keep analog users out
of your ISDN), encrypted passwords in users file, proxy requests for
other RADIUS servers, control number of simultaneous users per username,
Kerberos authentication, dbm/ndbm database capabilities, and more....

I'm working on a patch to do the user.service type thing (also
service:user).... can anybody send me the URL for the SCP patches so
I can duplicate their functionality?

I haven't gotten Merit installed in place of the Livingston server yet,
because we use service:user (because everybody else in this county
does), but in tests it compiles and works just fine on Linux and
Solaris 2.4/Sparc.

(And William, who claims he doesn't have time to support it, does a
damn good job of it anyway....when he does find the time. But
there is no official support from Merit/MichNet.)

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