Re: PAM-Radius authentication issue on Ubuntu 7.4: can not authenticate SSH users not present in /etc/passwd

Hu, Fengliang (Procurve Networking) wrote:

I did some research from the website and some emails dated in 2006 said that PAM_Radius can only authenticate user accounts in /etc/passwd file. Is that right?

Yes. There is no documented way in PAM to get UID/GID/etc from the PAM module (e.g. pam_radius), back up to PAM. Alan DeKok.