What does the module rlm_krb5 do?

Alan DeKok aland at deployingradius.com
Sun Dec 13 17:05:36 CET 2009


John Mok wrote:
> I am new to FreeRADIUS. I would like to set up FreeRADIUS, such that the
> AS proxies the Kerberos authentication request from the access point

  The AP sends a kerberos authentication request?

> to
> the Kerberos KDC and the access point grants access to the wired network
> upon successful authentication.

  If that happened, then RADIUS would not be involved.  Only Kerberos.

> Is there anyone knows what the module rlm_krb5 does? Whether it is the
> module I need to use to do the job?

  The Kerberos module takes a username && password, and validates it
against a Kerberos KDC.

  I would suggest clarifying what technology is being used before trying
to come up with a solution.

  Alan DeKok.



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