> Hello..
> Can anybody tell me how exactly do you set up Portmaster and
> Merit Radius together to authenticate between PPP, SLIP and Telnet
> logins. So for instance you get a prompt Username:, then Password: and
> then after it verifies who you are, it comes up with the Prompt Choose:
> and you type ppp,slip or telnet there...
>
If you use PAP with PPP, then you don't have to do anything
special. The portmaster sees the PPP frames on it's port, sends a
request to RADIUS with the Service-Type attribute set to Framed, and Merit
RADIUS picks that up and runs with it. It has three "default" profiles
for determining how to start the session: dumbuser (Telnet), pppuser,
and slipuser. So, you can use the same username and password for a
regular dialup or PPP session.
SLIP, I don't know about yet...with the stock Merit distribution,
you'd have to have an explicit entry in the users file for the SLIP
users, but I haven't seen a SLIP user on my system since we started
four months ago, and I now have 850 users.
If you can't use PAP...there is reportedly a patch to the
Merit package that uses a "service%user" format, but I don't know where
to get it. I hope to create a patch that handles at least four different
forms of this trick, but I don't have the time right now.
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David Carmean WB6YZM DC574 dave@west.net
System/Network Administrator, WestNet Communications, Inc.
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