Hi, I am looking for a Linux client side HOW-TO for radius authentication without requiring presence of the login id on client side locally. The following is the authentication scenario I am trying: 1) I have freeRadius server installed on a RedHat Linux machine 2) I would like users logging into other RedHat Linux machines in our network to have their login/passwd authenticated using freeRadius server (for login, su, ssh, telnet, ftp etc. ways of accessing local client machines in the network) 3) I do not want to use LDAP on server or client side 4) I am using PAM and have experimented with pam_radius_auth module without success 5) The problem I am facing is that the login id has also to be defined locally on client Linux machines --- otherwise, for example, the su command fails indicating that the id does not exist (if I create the login id on client locally, then it queries freeRadius server) 6) I do not want to add "ldap" to nsswitch.conf file of client --- just want to stick to radius for now In summary, is there a Linux client side HOW-TO for radius authentication without requiring presence of the login id on client side locally? Regards ... J. C. Desai