Re: Hack: UNIX Passwords and .ppp

Scott Barker (scott@galileo.cuug.ab.ca)
Fri, 16 Feb 1996 07:44:34 -0700 (MST)

Mury Johnson said:
> I just finished changing some of the radius code to allow "UNIX"
> passwords with the .ppp/.slip hack. It basically strips off any "." in
> the username including everything after the "." So if the user logs in
> as "joeblow" to get a shell login, and "joeblow.ppp" to get a ppp login
> radius sends "joeblow" in both cases as the username for Unix to check.

Since people seem to be re-inventing the wheel, I guess it's time to remind
them that I've already done this, along with hacks to allow user-defined
authentication and logging routines.

http://www.cuug.ab.ca:8001/~barkers/programs/radius/

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