Date: Mon, 3 Feb 1997 18:15:34 +1030 (CST) From: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> To: michaelh@cet.co.jp (Michael Hancock) Cc: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, davidn@unique.usn.blaze.net.au, terry@lambert.org, joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: login.conf - radius client (was Re: getty patches) Message-ID: <199702030745.SAA04809@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <Pine.SV4.3.95.970203132957.6439A-100000@parkplace.cet.co.jp> from Michael Hancock at "Feb 3, 97 01:35:41 pm"
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Michael Hancock stands accused of saying: > > > > I am _particularly_ interested in this, as I have a couple of (paying) > > ISP customers who very much want to integrate user logins to BSD > > machines with their radius authentication environment. > > This would be very interesting indeed. Centralized authentication to a > radiusd box for everything; an ASCEND box, a FreeBSD PPP server, a > FreeBSD client PC, etc. Yup. Basically NIS without NIS. There are a pile of other benefits in that you can (theoretically) backend stuff off the Radius server to manage your accounting, etc. One _big_ lose is that whilst the Radius-1 daemon was free, Livingston's license on the Radius-2 server is "only with Livingson hardware". One of my contacts said that a Liv. sales rep claimed that he could have the CD "for about US$1500 or so". Does this piss you off just a little? The whole "ride the free software thing and then gouge all the committed users" scenario is becoming _very_ annoying. > Mike Hancock -- ]] 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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