On Wed, 27 Sep 1995, William Bulley wrote:
> According to Matthew S. Crocker:
> Maybe I'm missing something, but the Merit version allows one user ID (jdoe)
> to have different reply values from the users file applied to several types
> of jdoe sessions (telnet, PPP, SLIP, etc.) In fact with 2.4 we support all
> eight (8) values of the Service-Type attribute (see the DRAFT RFC).
>
> This means that jdoe identifies herself as jdoe (not jdoe.ppp or jdoe.slip)
> and the server inspects the users file for the "canonical" user "pppuser"
> of "slipuser" depending on the hint in the incoming request found in the
> Service-Type attribute (provided there isn't already a reply-item for
> Service-Type found in the reply-items for the "real" jdoe entry.
>
> Is every one totally confused at this point? ;^)
Yes! How does a PPP sessiosn (specifically from a Portmaster) get
started BEFORE login? How does the User/Livingston provide this
Service-Type?
> Check the comments near the bottom of the users file and the code and
> comments in the protocol_check() routine in radiusd.c in the 2.4 release.
Still confused.
RGDS
GARY
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