libpam-radius-auth password problem

[Alan DeKok]

Fabio Pedretti wrote:
> It appears that this error is get when users are not already on the
> machine.

  Yes, it's a PAM problem.

> 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.

  Because Windows has a different API.

> Would be nice if a future version will
> be able to also create users - what a "useradd myuser" would do - after
> first succesful authentication.

  Sure.  Send a patch.

  Alan DeKok.