Re: secondary authentication server

Jon Lewis (jlewis@inorganic5.fdt.net)
Mon, 28 Apr 1997 01:21:02 -0400 (EDT)

On Sun, 27 Apr 1997, Chris Adams wrote:

> I have a patch for radiusd that allows you to set the password file
> used, but it only works on Linux where the C library has the function
> "setpwfile". It might work on some other systems with this function
> (Digital Unix also has it), but as far as I can tell, Solaris does not.

I'm confused here. Back with libc 4.7.x, this wasn't around. I hacked
libshadow and radiusd to make a setspfile function. I shared my hack on
the shadow mailing list. They finally made a setpwfile function and put
it in libc, but didn't bother with one for the shadow file?

I suppose you could automate distributing the passwd/shadow files to the
secondary server, and then unshadow them there...but that adds unnecessary
complexity.

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