Re: howto get/send the fullname of an user

[James Wakefield <jamesw@deakin.edu.au>]

Ariel VIVES wrote:
> Alan DeKok wrote:
> > Ariel VIVES <avives@enpc.fr> wrote:
> > > Yes, and my accounts are under NIS.
> > > But i want to authenticate my users using freeradius.
> > > and it works...
> > >
> > > so it isn't possible to get additional informations with freeradius by
> > > using a shell script or with adding specific attribute ?
> >   Does the NIS documentation say you can do that with RADIUS?
> >
> >   No.
>
> Does the NIS documentation say I can't do that with RADIUS ?
>
> No.
>
> Well, with NIS I can get informations like login but also full username
> or home directory.
> My question isn't about NIS but about freeradius.
>
> So I can't tell the freeradius server to get login but alos full username ?

Short of writing your own module to retrieve the data to send with 
Access-Accept, and adding attributes to the dictionary, no.

RADIUS is a AAA protocol.  Being a directory service is beyond its 
scope.  PHP's NIS/YP functions are pretty easy to use, you'd be better 
off using those.

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