Re: Radius Question

Dave Andersen (angio@aros.net)
Sat, 4 Nov 1995 00:51:54 -0700 (MST)

Lo and behold, Livingston Portmaster once said:

> users file and in our passwd file. Every user who has a passwd account
> has a users account and vice versa.

Yuch.

> So, I'm wanting to know if I just have an entry in my /etc/raddb/users
> file like below can I just add users to my /etc/passwd file and they will
> automatically have a Livingston PPP account?
>
> DEFAULT Password = "UNIX"

Yes. I can't imagine actually having separate entries in the users
file for all of your users. :)

> If this is the case, great, but I still need radius to compile with
> Shadow support on Linux or it's useless :-(
>
> Also, anyone have a solution to preventing multiple logins?

There are several. A few people have written solutions which maintain
a table/database of the users currently logged on and verify against
that. That's probably the most elegant solution to use, because it
prevents the logins in the first place. You can also use pmcom/pmwho to
log off multiple logins after a short period of time. It's not the best
solution, of course, but it's a "drop-in". You can get both utilities from
http://www.aros.net/portmaster/util

-Dave Andersen

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