CentOS 6.3 and FreeRadius - can't authenticate to Unix

Alan DeKok aland at deployingradius.com
Tue Oct 30 08:23:22 CET 2012


Fajar A. Nugraha wrote:
> What's the recommended method for authenticating against Linux system
> users? I thought pam was the better one?

  Maybe.  getpwent() or getspwent() should work.

> Also, is the "big warning" still valid?

  Likely, yes.  I've been avoiding PAM for nearly a decade now.  It's
not as bad as libtool, but it's pretty crazy.

  Alan DeKok.


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