Re: radpass

William Bulley (web@merit.edu)
Sat, 16 Sep 1995 14:43:04 -0400 (EDT)

According to Christian Nielsen:
>
> I compiled radius for our new sun server. I just went to the source and
> there was this file
>
> -rwx--x--x 1 aoi 18184 Sep 16 10:15 radpass*
>
> what does it do? I know what radiusd does. It was not in the README text,
> or at least I could not find it, read it over and over

This is an old (now deprecated) feature of RADIUS. That of changing
one's password using RADIUS. The radpass client utility may be run by
anyone on the UNIX box where the executable resides. By running it
they may change their RADIUS password (in the RADIUS users file) on
any RADIUS machine which has them in its users file (they have to
know their old password, I think).

People felt that RADIUS had no business changing passwords since it
is an authentication protocol, ya see... :-)

Carl has asked us to keep it around, however, which is why it also\
appears in the Merit version of RADIUS.

Regards,

web...

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