libpam-radius-auth password problem

[Fabio Pedretti]

Citando Alan DeKok <aland at deployingradius.com>:

> Fabio Pedretti wrote:
>> When I try to authenticate with ssh into the machine I noticed that
>> freeradius receive this password "\010\n\r\177INCORRECT", that it's not
>> the one I typed.
>
>   That's a PAM problem.  There's little you can do to RADIUS to fix that.

It appears that this error is get when users are not already on the machine.

The libpam-radius-auth plugin is powerful but has the limit that users have to be previously created on the machine and this is not practical when you have thousand of users that could access to the machine (e.g. universities informatic laboratories). A similar plugin for Windows (pGina + RADIUS plugin) is able to automatically create the users after first succesful authentication. Would be nice if a future version will be able to also create users - what a "useradd myuser" would do - after first succesful authentication.

Fabio