(PM) Second login server (fwd)

MegaZone (megazone@megazone.org)
Sun, 21 Feb 1999 02:00:19 -0800 (PST)

Once upon a time Benn Boulton shaped the electrons to say...
>Is it possible to have a login session first check one auth server then
>a second for a valid username and password where the two servers have
>separate list of users.

At the NAS level - no. A RADIUS client will only failover to a backup
when the primary fails to respond.

You could do this via RADIUS Proxy - where if the primary server fails
to auth, instead of issuing an Access-Reject it sends a Proxy request
to the other server. This isn't a normal situation, but I believe
Lucent Port Authority RADIUS and Radiator both include this capability,
and it wouldn't be hard to hack it into Cistron if it doesn't do it
natively.

-MZ

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