No "known good" password for NIS users

tnt at kalik.net tnt at kalik.net
Thu Mar 5 21:08:02 CET 2009


>I am running FreeRADIUS 2.1.3 on a machine that is also a NIS client.
>Using radtest, I find that local user accounts are accepted, but NIS
>accounts are rejected.
>

Well, yes. How is freeradius suposed to talk to NIS? Perhaps PAM? Or is
there some ntlm_auth type script?

>I have not changed anything from the default configuration other than
>adding client info and setting DEFAULT Auth-Type = System in the users
>file.
>

You don't need that in 2.x. And it will get in the way if you need to
set Auth-Type PAM.

Ivan Kalik
Kalik Informatika ISP




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