Radius auth with LDAP back-end

Mark Watts m.watts at eris.qinetiq.com
Tue Mar 2 17:54:36 CET 2010


On Tue, 2010-03-02 at 17:31 +0100, Alan DeKok wrote:
> Mark Watts wrote:
> > Getting the Unix/Linux -> LDAP authentication working is something I'm
> > reasonably familiar with.
> > RADIUS is not.
> 
>   Install 2.1.8.  Read raddb/modules/ldap.  Configure it.  Uncomment
> references to "ldap" in raddb/sites-available/default.
> 
>   Start the server.
> 
> > I've come across this page which seems to cover what I want from
> > FreeRADIUS:
> > 
> > http://tldp.org/HOWTO/archived/LDAP-Implementation-HOWTO/radius.html
> > 
> > However, some of the comments in /etc/raddb/modules/ldap about setting
> > "Auth-Type = LDAP" concern me.
> 
>   That documentation is years out of date.
> 
> > Can someone with knowledge of this kind of setup please advise on the
> > best way forward?
> 
>   Read the documentation that comes with the server, and the comments in
> the configuration files.  It *should* be pretty straightforward.
> 
>   Alan DeKok.

I figured that document was out of date.

Thanks for the pointers; I'll give them a try.

Mark.

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