yes josh, as you guessed it, it doesn't work with HP-UX and Solaris (to some extent, as it provides a warning during useradd command with '@' in the username).<br>We don't plan to use LDAP for NSS immediately.<br><br>thanks to all.<br><br>sayan<br><br><b><i>Josh Howlett <Josh.Howlett@ja.net></i></b> wrote:<blockquote class="replbq" style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"> Hi Sayan,<br><br>I think I have tried this previously, and it was possible (on<br>Linux/glibc anyway - YMMV with other unices).<br><br>TBH, I don't really see the point in using RADIUS when you'll (probably)<br>want to use LDAP anyway for nss resolution, so you might as well just<br>use LDAP for PAM.<br><br>josh. <br><br>> -----Original Message-----<br>> From: <br>> freeradius-users-bounces+josh.howlett=ja.net@lists.freeradius.<br>> org <br>> [mailto:freeradius-users-bounces+josh.howlett=ja.net@lists.fre<br>eradius.org] On Behalf Of Sayan
S<br>> Sent: 20 August 2007 14:04<br>> To: FreeRadius users mailing list<br>> Subject: Re: PAM Radius<br>> <br>> Thanks Alan for the quick response.<br>> I am referring to realm here, as RADIUS support realms, and <br>> we are using RADIUS to authenticate the users to Linux, so <br>> seems like we need to have all users contained in the same realm.<br>> <br>> Is having username in user@realm form a valid unix format? I <br>> was thinking the first part of the user@realm should be the <br>> unix username though the radius request is sent as <br>> user@realm. Otherwise we need to have a comprehensive <br>> RADIUS-username@realm to Unix-userid mapping.<br>> <br>> regards,<br>> sayan<br>> <br>> Alan DeKok <aland@deployingradius.com> wrote:<br>> <br>> Sayan S wrote:<br>> > Greetings, I am very new to RADIUS and PAM RADIUS.<br>> > I am trying to configure PAM Radius to authenticate <br>> users on a
Linux<br>> > host. I would like to know, how to configure PAM <br>> Radius to authenticate<br>> > users from different realms, as the current <br>> configuration doesn't seem<br>> > to take realm.<br>> <br>> You don't use realms in Unix logins.<br>> <br>> > please help me with this as I have configured users <br>> to be part of<br>> > different realms on radius server and now want to <br>> authenticate all those<br>> > users to the same Linux host.<br>> <br>> You just login as "user@realm". That might work.<br>> <br>> Alan DeKok.<br>> - <br>> List info/subscribe/unsubscribe? See <br>> http://www.freeradius.org/list/users.html<br>> <br>> <br>> <br>> ________________________________<br>> <br>> Park yourself in front of a world of choices in alternative vehicles.<br>> Visit the Yahoo! Auto Green Center. <br>> <http: us.rd.yahoo.com=""
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