Re: 2 unix hosts hold user info? (fwd)
John G. Thompson (jgt10@livingston.com)
Tue, 27 Aug 1996 08:55:24 -0700 (PDT)
On Tue, 27 Aug 1996, MegaZone wrote:
> Once upon a time George Mansoor shaped the electrons to say...
> >I have 1 pm2er which is using radius for user authentication. Currently
> >I only have 1 unix host but would like to add another. This second unix
> >host would contain a seperate set of users that will also be authorized
> >to dialin. Is there anyway I can setup my pm2er such that if the user
> >authentication fails on one it will check the other?
>
> No.
>
> Your choices are:
>
> 1. To add the users from the second system to the first one
> with a bogus shell to forbid logins but still use UNIX as a password:
> 2. Add them to the /etc/raddb/users file directly on the first system.
> 3. Use a RADIUS server that handles proxy requests and set it up on both
> machines - note that Livingston's server does not do proxying.
4. Hack the radius code on the secondary to use a copy of the passwd/
shadow password file instead of the second systems password file and
set up a cron job to copy the users file and the password files from the
primary to the secondary.
JGT
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