How to configure Radius to provide Linux user permissions and rights

[Michael Martinez]

This is what I suspected. Thanks for the answer.

On Mon, Nov 30, 2015 at 11:15 AM, Alan DeKok <aland at deployingradius.com>
wrote:

> On Nov 30, 2015, at 2:10 PM, Michael Martinez <mwtzzz at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > A radius 2.2.9 server authenticates Linux users via the pam module. Is it
> > possible for Radius to not only very password, but also provide the users
> > with their Linux permissions - their group memberships and other such
> > things? If so, how to configure this?
>
>   No.  PAM does not support that.  Therefore the RADIUS PAM module cannot
> support that.
>
> > Other traditional ways of doing this, such as ldap or NIS, work by
> > interacting with PAM or nsswitch, and can be cached in nscd. But I'm not
> > seeing a way to integrate radius into this. Different sources online
> > mention that radius can pass group membership back to the client but they
> > don't explain how to configure it.
>
>   Ask the PAM people.  It's impossible.
>
>   Alan DeKok.
>
>
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