FILE authentication

Matt Zimmerman (mdz@netrail.net)
Sun, 22 Oct 1995 19:29:16 -0400 (EDT)

I currently use RADIUS (Merit 2.4.4) to authenticate dial-in users with
Unix-PW, checking against a shadowed password database.

I want to set up a secondary server, but I don't want to allow users to
login to it. I've seen scattered references to a "FILE" authentication
method, but I haven't been able to figure out what file it uses for
lookup, or what its format is (or even how the passwords are encrypted,
and thus if I can do what I want). Any help?

Of course, a reference for features like this would be useful...any
reference at ALL for the Merit server itself (not the RADIUS protocol)
would be nice...can't seem to find one in the distribution or at Merit
anywhere.

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