1.1.18 is out

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On Fri, 11 Sep 1998 14:03:39 +0200, Gert Doering <gert@greenie.muc.de> wrote:
>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.

There already is some code. Just look for "radiusclient-0.2.7". Also has
a nice patch for pppd to do RADIUS auth. It works at our system, and I
have a bugfix to it regarding the handling of 255.255.255.254.

F.
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