Re: (PM) Radius (fwd)

Jacob Suter (jsuter@intrastar.net)
Thu, 06 Nov 1997 18:32:25 -0600

I don't want to dedicate a machine for controlling my one portmaster...
Thats what Cyclades serial cards are for - and a whole lot cheaper per
port than a Portmaster, I use the portmaster because it works. I also
bought my Portmaster with the understanding that radius (or something
else from livingston) would be controlling multi logins soon.. that was
21 months ago, and a lot of radiuses ago, and it still remains.

Pmmon is a commercial application - they want money. Money that
shouldn't be nessasary because it SHOULD be build into the terminal
server & its normal support software (ie - radius).

Why not a 'is this luser already logged in' system? Lets say you have
pm1-pm8... luser logs into pm8, it checks the 'users' file, sees that
he has a max-ports of 1... at that point calling all the portmasters and
going "is this luser already logged in?"... A finger-like software with
real security would work.

*sigh* it seems like such an easy thing to fix, and its not.

JS
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