PAM-Radius authentication issue on Ubuntu 7.4: can not authenticate SSH users not present in /etc/passwd

[Alan DeKok]

Hu, Fengliang (Procurve Networking) wrote:
> I did some research from the website and some emails dated in 2006 said
> that PAM_Radius can only authenticate user accounts in /etc/passwd file.
> Is that right?

  Yes.  There is no documented way in PAM to get UID/GID/etc from the
PAM module (e.g. pam_radius), back up to PAM.

  Alan DeKok.