Re: Centralising passwords/radius accounting
On Mon, 13 Dec 1999, Russell Coker wrote:
> >Rather than having complete installations at each location, I was thinking
> >we would probably only put a radius / squid proxy at each location.
> >
> >However we would want passwords to be chared from ur centralised server,
> >and all accounting information passed back to it.
>
> Use LDAP for Authentication and install OpenLDAP servers at all locations.
> Have all writes go to the main LDAP server and have it replicate to the other
> ones. This way a minimal amount of bandwidth will be taken up between the
> POP's, there will be full redundancy, and it will work with most currently
> available RADIUS servers.
I am not familure with ldap beyond the idea, but I assume that the
authentication is taken care of via an PAM - ldap setup. How would you
compare ldap to SQL for this kind of application?
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