Re: using radius user file to deny access

Ed Longstrom (edl@rock.spectra.net)
Thu, 7 Nov 1996 16:35:19 -0500 (EST)

John,

Why put them in Radius at all then, it you don't want
them authenticated by radius?

Ed

On Thu, 7 Nov 1996, John Driscoll wrote:

> Hi all;
>
> 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.
>
> thanks
>
> John Driscoll
> jfd@prime-x.net
>