How to configure Solaris 10 Radius Authentication client.

[Michael Hocke]

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On Jun 4, 2012, at 2:06 PM, Alek Barsky wrote:

> I need to configure bunch of Solaris servers to use RADIUS PAM for Authentication/Authorization.

PAM only does authentication. After all, it stands for Pluggable Authentication Modules.

> I followed instructions in http://freeradius.org/pam_radius_auth/ and was able to configure Authentication portion of this task.
> There is one problem – the only way I can receive login shell on this box – if user already exists.

That's because in addition to PAM you still need some kind of directory to hold all the other user information like user id, group id, home directory, gecos field and preferred shell. /etc/nsswitch.conf determines where that information can be retrieved from (files, NIS, LDAP, DNS, etc.). I am not aware of a solution that lets you use RADIUS as a directory service for Solaris.

- - Michael


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