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Date:      Sun, 31 Jan 1999 14:48:16 -0800 (PST)
From:      John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com>
To:        Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org>
Cc:        cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/lib/libradius - Imported sources
Message-ID:  <XFMail.990131144816.jdp@polstra.com>
In-Reply-To: <199901312119.VAA05943@keep.lan.Awfulhak.org>

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Brian Somers wrote:
>> Ppp should (obviously) use PAM, not the Radius library directly.
> 
> Looking into things a bit, PAM and RADIUS are different things.  PAM 
> only does authentication AFAIK.

PAM can do accounting and other stuff too, but none of our current modules
support it.  Note, however, that accounting isn't implemented in libradius
either -- it just does authentication (unless you added accounting support
when I wasn't looking :-).


John
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  John Polstra                                               jdp@polstra.com
  John D. Polstra & Co., Inc.                        Seattle, Washington USA
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