Date: Wed, 23 Apr 1997 12:25:14 +0930 (CST) From: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> To: bradley@dunn.org (Bradley Dunn) Cc: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Need a common passwd file among machines Message-ID: <199704230255.MAA18881@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970422211907.11141C-100000@ns2.harborcom.net> from Bradley Dunn at "Apr 22, 97 09:35:40 pm"
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Bradley Dunn stands accused of saying: > On Mon, 21 Apr 1997, Michael Smith wrote: > > > "So what" is that the new Livingston code is Radius-2 compliant, and has > > lots of nice features. > > What is "Radius-2 compliant"? AFAIK the only compliance that matters is > RFC2138. The code at > ftp://ftp.merit.edu/radius/releases/radius.23c.basic.tar.gz > is free and is nearly compliant. (Actually the Livingston code is not > compliant with the RFC either because they used port 1645 when it was > already assigned.) I'll grant that the Merit server (which amazingly I only just ran into) looks worthwhile. > The new features of the Livingston code are basically superficial junk > like user menus and prefix/suffix support. I was most interested in the hooks that they were claiming for things like counted user access and backending for accounting databases. I haven't studied the Merit server for long enough to know if it covers this already. -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control. (ph) +61-8-8267-3493 [[ ]] Unix hardware collector. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[
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