Re: (PM) Radius users file conversion

Chris Comley (Chris@wizards.co.uk)
Thu, 22 Jan 1998 17:03:15 +0000

> Basically, if you're adding every new customer to the users file,
> you're probably not using RADIUS correctly. It works great for
> authenticating users against a UNIX system's password file. Dunno about
> NT, since I've never tried it - I'm a Unix weenie from way back, and still
> don't think that NT scales up well enough to handle the load we'd throw
> at it.

This rather depends how you define "correctly". The ability to
"proxy" the Unix user list is well and good but it's not the only way
to use the tool. Nothing wrong with using the "users" file for what
it's for - Radius user definitions.


Chris Comley
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