From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Nov 4 13:37:03 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id NAA29989 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 4 Nov 1996 13:37:03 -0800 (PST) Received: from agora.rdrop.com (root@agora.rdrop.com [199.2.210.241]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id NAA29962; Mon, 4 Nov 1996 13:36:50 -0800 (PST) Received: from brasil.moneng.mei.com by agora.rdrop.com with smtp (Smail3.1.29.1 #17) id m0vKWhI-0008reC; Mon, 4 Nov 96 13:36 PST Received: (from jgreco@localhost) by brasil.moneng.mei.com (8.7.Beta.1/8.7.Beta.1) id PAA05636; Mon, 4 Nov 1996 15:31:55 -0600 From: Joe Greco Message-Id: <199611042131.PAA05636@brasil.moneng.mei.com> Subject: Re: pppgetty To: michael@memra.com (Michael Dillon) Date: Mon, 4 Nov 1996 15:31:55 -0600 (CST) Cc: hackers@freebsd.org, isp@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: from "Michael Dillon" at Nov 4, 96 11:25:12 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > 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