Problems System Auth with FreeRadius (/etc/shadow)

[Nataniel Klug]

Alan,

Now you have gived me a tip... At my Fedora there is no group shadow, so I
put radius to run as group "root" so it could read /etc/shadow only if I set
+r to group at shadow files.

Att,

Nataniel Klug

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Alan DeKok" <aland at ox.org>
To: "FreeRadius users mailing list" <freeradius-users at lists.freeradius.org>
Sent: Thursday, January 26, 2006 3:37 PM
Subject: Re: Problems System Auth with FreeRadius (/etc/shadow)


> "Nataniel Klug" <nata at cnett.psi.br> wrote:
> > I just have installed the package from Fedora Core 3, nothing else.
>
>   Then look at the configuration file.  See how it's different from
> what is shipped with FreeRADIUS.
>
>   And setting "a+rw" on /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow is probaby the
> single worst thing you can do to your system.  EVER.  Rather than
> doing that, read raddb/radiusd.conf, it talks about issues with
> reading /etc/shadow, and describes suggested fixes won't destroy your
> system.
>
>   Honestly, I don't understand why it's so hard to read the
> configuration files.
>
>   Alan DeKok.
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