Radius-based windows authentication

Phil Mayers p.mayers at imperial.ac.uk
Fri Apr 25 18:49:57 CEST 2008


Mike Perdide wrote:
>> Phil Mayers wrote:
>>>> Is the windows machine a domain member?
>>> No it's not. Only the users are.
>> ?
> 
>> When you sit at the login screen, and press ctrl+alt+del, are you
>> logging in with a username and password which is checked against the
>> domain controllers?
>> If so, then the machine *is* joined into the domain.
> You're right, it is, I am not familiar with the windows domains.
> 
>>>>      * machine validates credentials to the domain controller, over the
>>>> current network connection
>  How did the machine obtain network connection ? It has to go throught 
> freeradius authorization, hasn't it ?

Yes, using the machine account



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