Re: Chrootin' radiusd

Jon Lewis (jlewis@inorganic5.fdt.net)
Mon, 9 Sep 1996 13:29:48 -0400 (EDT)

On Mon, 9 Sep 1996, Craig Brozefsky wrote:

> does Livingston or other's who distribute a radiusd do this presently, or
> are they planning to do this? Radius only access, accounting,
> dictionary, users, logs and password files so it's very easy to build the
> chrooted environment. It also allows you to use seperate password files
> in case you us the UNIX keyword.

I contemplated doing this (the chroot thing) to radiusd to make a
secondary radiusd...but instead, I hacked linux's libshadow and made a
function where I can specify an alternate shadow file, and made radiusd
not care if getpwnam returns nothing. All the secondary is interested in
is what getspnam returns.

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