OpenSSH, PAM and pam_radius_auth

[Alan DeKok]

Sobanbabu Bakthavathsalu wrote:
> Hi Johan,
> 
> Its good to hear that you reached up a level where Radius is working fine. But we are unable to break the jinx, and I am getting the following error when trying to telnet to the box. The installation and configuration of pam radius module went fine. Could you please help in this regards.
> 
> Error we are getting
> Jan  8 13:57:27 ada-delegate1 login: [ID 801593 auth.error] pam_radius_auth: Fai
> led looking up IP address for RADIUS server radius1 (errcode=12)

  So.... fix DNS so that it has a name to IP mapping for that host.  Or,
add that name to IP mapping into /etc/hosts.

  The module can't do anything if you tell it to use "radius1" as a
RADIUS server, and the don't tell it where "radius1" is on the network.

  Alan DeKok.