[pam_radius_auth] Is it possible that an account might be workable, while the user is not available on device.

Alan DeKok aland at deployingradius.com
Sun Apr 3 12:26:00 UTC 2022


On Apr 2, 2022, at 12:09 AM, zhangguo200588 at 126.com wrote:
> I am new to freeradius and trying pam_radius_auth now. 
> Is it possible that an account might be workable, while the user is not available on device(Ubuntu PC). 
> It is always failed in my test environmen.

  The PAM system only does name / password checking.  It doesn't assign UID / GID / home directory, etc.

  As a result, the user must exist on the device in order for PAM to work.

  Alan DeKok.



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