Re: Centralising passwords/radius accounting
On Mon, 13 Dec 1999, Russell Coker wrote:
> They do the same sort of thing in much the same way. Don't bother with PAM,
> using the NSS modules is much easier and for the read-only side of things PAM
> offers no benefit.
The nss libs are included in the deb or will they need to be created from
source?
> Most RADIUS servers now are capable of doing LDAP authentication directly
> without using getpwnam() to access data in LDAP. This is good because it
> allows more than just searching on user-name. You can configure the RADIUS
> server to look for extra attributes to determine whether the user can access.
> You could probably even store things like static IP addresses in LDAP.
> One site that I'm working with has LDAP storing the phone numbers used to
> call the terminal server. Both the phone number AND the password must match
> to give the user access.
The primary concern that I have is the billing/tech system that we have
devleoped. It is currently MySQL based. Are there LDAP access modules for
Perl? I relize that I could RTM and figure this out without bothering you,
so TIA for any more info. :)
> --
> The ultimate result is that some innovations that would truly benefit
> consumers never occur for the sole reason that they do not coincide with
> Microsoft's self-interest.
> -- Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson, U.S. District Judge
>
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Jaysen O'Dell
Oatka Data Solutions
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AcornWorld Internet Services
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