Re: using radius user file to deny access

Mike Taylor (taylor@syrinx.jeffnet.org)
Thu, 7 Nov 1996 13:44:19 -0800 (PST)

On Thu, 7 Nov 1996, John Driscoll wrote:

> We're running radius on a linux server (runs great - please no flames!).
> Presently we're using the default 'UNIX' user to have radius authenticate
> against the /etc/passwd file. Is there a clever way to add someone to the
> radius USER file such that they would be denied dial-up PPP access thru the
> PM but still have a valid userid/password in /etc/passwd? I'd like to have
> it so that if they tried to dial in they would get some sort of 'access
> denied' message.
>
I do this for my "ether only" accounts. I have all the dialin users in
the radius database. If I dont want them to dial in I just remove thier
radius entry. they can still telnet in, but no dialup.
However, it means that you have to have a radius entry for each account
and no "default".

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