Radius login to shell accounts

Michael L Judson (judson@linex.com)
Tue, 7 Nov 95 04:31:13 -0800

I have Radius set up now on one of my terminal servers and everything is
working fine and dandy for PPP logins. However, we also offer dial-up
shell accounts and I want to set up the Radius server so that it will
recognize that the login is a shell login and will directly login into
the shell host after entering the password. The users.example file
shows the following example for shell login:

judson Password = "UNIX"
User-Service-Type = Login-User,
Login-Host = 199.4.98.10,
Login-Service = Telnet,
Login-TCP-Port = 23

The Radius install documentation says to enter the terminal server in
the /etc/hosts.equiv file, which I did.

However, it appears not to be working. I still get prompted a second
time by the host machine when I have Login-Service set to Telnet.
When I changed Login-Service to Rlogin (which is how it is set up on
the terminal server without Radius), it doesn't log in and just sends
back *** Host Is Currently Unavailable ***.

Any pointers on what I'm doing wrong or what I'm forgetting to do?
What I would really like to be able to do is not have to enter the
shell user in the Radius users table. Without Radius, the terminal
server checks to see if the login is in its users table, and if it
isn't, the user immediately gets sent to the host to log in. Can I
set up Radius so that if the Radius users table does not find the
login, then it immediately gets sent to the host machine?