Re: authenticattion

Gene Imes (ebi2@ozob.net)
Tue, 8 Jul 1997 16:48:44 -0500 (CDT)

On Mon, 7 Jul 1997, Steven P. Crain wrote:

> On Mon, 7 Jul 1997, Gene Imes wrote:
>
> > Why does this succeed:
> >
> > mccart Password = "secret"
> >
> > and this fail:
> >
> > mccart Auth-Type = System
>
> More info is needed to explain this, since there are many possible causes.
>
> 1) Auth-Type = System is not understood by all RADIUS servers. Which
> server are you using? If it is Livingston 1.16, you need Password =
> "UNIX" as an example.
>
> 2) System-based authentication is incompatible with CHAP.
>

This is the reason.

Thanks.

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