Re: UNIX password file
Ralph Huntington (rjh@mohawk.net)
Fri, 23 Aug 1996 19:07:42 -0400 (EDT)
> > Radius is able to work directly with the Unix passwd file. -rh
>
> that's how I've got it at the moment, but I want to use the user file
> instead not the UNIX password file. What I want to do is use the user file
> of Radius instead. My main reason is that the version of linux am using is
> doing some funny stuff with the passwd file. I have a users "jim",
> "jimmy", "jimwatt" and others. When "jim" changes his password his whole
> line in the passwd file is somehow copied to all users containing "jim". So
> am hoping to solve the problem using the Radius user file and radpass.
>
> What I don't want to do is have to ask everyone to give me a new password.
My recommendation would be to move to BSD -- either FreeBSD or, if you can
afford it, BSD/OS 2.1 from BSDI. I'm sorry but I just can't bring myself
to dream up a workaround solution for this. You're saying the OS is doing
something to /etc/passwd? Too weird. I still say switch to bsd, with it's
more secure, (somewhat) shadowed passwd scheme (at least the actual
encrypted passwd is not world readable). Let Radius continue to use the
Unix passsword or even add another layer, e.g., kerberos.
- rh