Unix domain socket support for authentication and accounting?

[Alan DeKok]

On May 13, 2022, at 3:08 AM, Michael Ströder via Freeradius-Users <freeradius-users at lists.freeradius.org> wrote:
> One thing I like about Unix domain sockets is using the Unix peer credentials for password-less and secure authc of local client processes.
> 
> E.g. OpenLDAP can use LDAPI and authz-regexp to map the POSIX-UID/-GID to LDAP identities.
> 
> Not sure whether such a use-case would make sense for FreeRADIUS sense though.

  radmin uses it.  Not much else does, tho.

  I can't think of any use-case for RADIUS over unix domain sockets.

  Alan DeKok.