PAM Radius

[Josh Howlett]

Hi Sayan,

I think I have tried this previously, and it was possible (on
Linux/glibc anyway - YMMV with other unices).

TBH, I don't really see the point in using RADIUS when you'll (probably)
want to use LDAP anyway for nss resolution, so you might as well just
use LDAP for PAM.

josh. 

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eradius.org] On Behalf Of Sayan S
> Sent: 20 August 2007 14:04
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> Subject: Re: PAM Radius
> 
> Thanks Alan for the quick response.
> I am referring to realm here, as RADIUS support realms, and 
> we are using RADIUS to authenticate the users to Linux, so 
> seems like we need to have all users contained in the same realm.
> 
> Is having username in user at realm form a valid unix format? I 
> was thinking the first part of the user at realm should be the 
> unix username though the radius request is sent as 
> user at realm. Otherwise we need to have a comprehensive 
> RADIUS-username at realm to Unix-userid mapping.
> 
> regards,
> sayan
> 
> Alan DeKok <aland at deployingradius.com> wrote:
> 
> 	Sayan S wrote:
> 	> Greetings, I am very new to RADIUS and PAM RADIUS.
> 	> I am trying to configure PAM Radius to authenticate 
> users on a Linux
> 	> host. I would like to know, how to configure PAM 
> Radius to authenticate
> 	> users from different realms, as the current 
> configuration doesn't seem
> 	> to take realm.
> 	
> 	You don't use realms in Unix logins.
> 	
> 	> please help me with this as I have configured users 
> to be part of
> 	> different realms on radius server and now want to 
> authenticate all those
> 	> users to the same Linux host.
> 	
> 	You just login as "user at realm". That might work.
> 	
> 	Alan DeKok.
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