Date: Mon, 4 Nov 1996 15:31:55 -0600 (CST) From: Joe Greco <jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com> To: michael@memra.com (Michael Dillon) Cc: hackers@freebsd.org, isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: pppgetty Message-ID: <199611042131.PAA05636@brasil.moneng.mei.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSI.3.93.961104112223.18774D-100000@sidhe.memra.com> from "Michael Dillon" at Nov 4, 96 11:25:12 am
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> On Mon, 4 Nov 1996, Joe Greco wrote: > > > took action appropriately. RADIUS is essentially a much more complex, > > featureful, "do it all" version of my NLR system. > > RADIUS is also the standard authentication protocol for ISP's and will be > a required protocol for ISP's who wish to participate in ROAMing > consortiums. If you are going to build a pppgetty it would be OK to > have RADIUS authentication optional but it would be bad to leave it out > entirely. > > Linux already has two variations of a hacked login supporting RADIUS > and PPP. There is also a linux version of pppd that has been hacked to > replace login. Having looked for both of these in the past (and not knowing where to look), I sorta gave up. I agree that RADIUS would be nice... :-) But I wasn't about to set out to start fresh when I could do something simple to extend what I already had. If you have any pointers, please pass them this way. ... JG
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