Re: Problem with Merit realms and Rlogin users

William Bulley (web@merit.edu)
Wed, 14 Aug 1996 10:56:45 -0400 (EDT)

According to David Carmean:
>
> Well, I'm hoping William can comment.... Those Michigossians
> use a lot of Portmasters.... (If only I could remember what movie that
> was from.)

It's Michiganians BTW (Mich'-e-gane''-e-ans) and it was from Independence
Day -- no, that was aliens, oh well... :-)

> But, I was actually thinking more along the lines of whether or not
> the Portmaster would accept a User-Name attribute in the RADIUS reply
> packet.

I don't think it will. That is part of the DRAFT RFC and is required
for security reasons. I missed that point on my earlier reply BTW...

> I really haven't had the time yet to read the drafts
> closely, nor try this approach to see if it works....I will do so, but
> this had become somewhat of an emergency. We just told our users to
> start using realms, and I must admit that my testing had not been
> sufficient.

I would urge you to read the DRAFT RFC (at least once) -- it's good for
you -- like broccoli. ;^)

Regards,

web...

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