Re: RADIUS porting....start with Merit!

Chris Trown (ctrown@ecst.csuchico.edu)
Fri, 3 Nov 1995 11:32:48 -0800 (PST)

David Carmean sez
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> 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.
>

I agree. I've been using it productionally on at least two different
systems with about 4 Portmasters. One of these systems proxies auth requests
to other systems. hey, I even got the TACACS patch to work with out VMS system.
The part that I like is that there is no need for users to enter S, C or P
when logging in. PPP sessions and regular logins are handled seamlessly.

> 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....
>

Whee!!

>
> (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.)
>

He (and his team??) certainly cranks out the code. Good job William!

Take a look at:

http://home.merit.edu/webstuff/radius/

They have a lot of cool plans in the works.

Chris...

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