Re: authentication-type = file ?

William Bulley (web@merit.edu)
Mon, 12 Feb 1996 09:49:37 -0500 (EST)

According to Curt Sampson:
>
> I've got an AATV that does this. It's not been cleaned up for public
> consumption, but I'd be happy to let you (or anyone else) have the
> code if you know how to compile it into RADIUS.
>
> It's yet to be modified so that you can specify the file in the
> third field, right now you just modify the source. But I'll get
> around to that one day.
>
> Now that I think about it, actually, perhaps it would be better
> to modify the Unix-PW authentication to take an option third
> argument specifying the location of the passwd-style file to use.
> What do you think, William?

I think I'd be glad to incorporate any reasonable AATV modules which
people have written and which have general utility. I'd rather not
muck with the UNIX-PW AATV since I think that needs to be pristine
as the fall-back mode when all else fails. However, new AATVs are
fine, as long as they have been tested in the real world and have
been shown to work.

Testing any AATV on each ported platform gets to be rather geometric,
so I'm not looking forward to doing all that work. Anyway, I don't
have access to all the "n" machines Merit RADIUS runs on...

Regards,

web...

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