RE: authenticate via etc/shadow intead of users

Thanks Alan, what I am actually trying to achieve is to authenticate users against our Linux /etc/shadow or /etc/password/ files. I don't want to use the USERS file as it stores passwords in clear text which is what we're trying to avoid.

Hi,

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I am a newbie to free radius, I need to know what changes are required in radiusd.conf or any other file in order to authenticate clients requests through local machine users(etc/passwd or etc/shadow) instead of making users in the raddb/users file.

add users to the system passwd/shadow file, ensure that the 'unix' module is enabled.

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