Authorization in RADIUS, Authorization in freeradius

[George Beitis]

Hey there
thanks for the reply, do you know how they do it though?  Is it just
perl scripts that help make a decision?  Or do they use authorization
engines of some sort that support policies?

George


A.L.M.Buxey at lboro.ac.uk wrote:
> Hi,
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>> in other words authentication and authorization become one the same.  Do
>> you know of any products that can be used with freeradius to provide
>> such authorization facilities?  Using perhaps policies?
>>     
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> a LOT of people on this list use policies with authorization. be
> that a trivial one such as 'user can only log in from certain NAS' 
> going up to classes of users pulled from LDAP or SQL - and thus
> returning different attributes - eg different VLANs
> in a lot of cases the same source is used, in other cases, PERL
> or SQL is used for check items
>
> alan
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