Apache2 - PAM - freeRADIUS - users

[Nick Owen]

On 3/21/07, Helmut Tröbs <Helmut.Troebs at lrz-muenchen.de> wrote:
> Hello Michael,
>
> >>
> >>  freeRADIUS works quite good and it's possible to authenticate via PAM,
> >> for example local logins, ssh-logins, su, chsh, gdm, ... are working
> >> quite fine.
> >>
> >> The only thing is the htaccess from apache2 which will not work. The
> >> Radius gets the request and permits the user:
> >
> >   I would suggest finding out why Apache is requiring more from PAM than
> > everyone else does.  It's not really a pam_radius problem, because it
> > works with everything else.
> >
>
>
> we had similar problems with radius and Apache2 (it is not a RADIUS/PAM
> problem!) PAM didn't work for us neither, so a colleague found another
> radius module for Apache 2:
>
> http://www.outoforder.cc/projects/apache/mod_auth_xradius/
>
> But it only works with Apache 2.0.x. With Apache 2.2.x we didn't manage
> to get any radius authentication working.

I got apache <-> radius working with mod_auth_xradius with apache-2.2.2 on FC6.

a very basic how-to is here:
http://www.howtoforge.com/apache_radius_two_factor_authentication

hth.

nick

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