1.1.18 is out

Gert Doering (gert@greenie.muc.de)
Fri, 11 Sep 1998 14:03:39 +0200

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Hi,

On Fri, Sep 11, 1998 at 09:02:00AM -0300, Benedicto Junior wrote:
> Recently, I changed from mgetty to portslave just because of Radius
> authentication it has. So, I have this suggestion to make. I am a C++
> programmer and I know everything about Radius Authentication. I think I
> can help doing that if you think it's important.

Mgetty doesn't do ANY kind of authentication -- /sbin/login does (or
/usr/sbin/pppd), mgetty will never do.

The best way to make mgetty+login work with radius would be, IMHO, to
write a PAM module that can do radius, and then just plug this module into
login.

gert
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