Re: radius server that reads from a file other than /etc/passwd/shadow

Jon Lewis (jlewis@inorganic5.fdt.net)
Mon, 10 Jun 1996 19:03:53 -0400 (EDT)

On Mon, 10 Jun 1996, mickey wrote:

> One more question--has anyone hacked radius to get passwords from files
> other than /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow? This would be very helpful in
> keeping a backup radius server and not worrying about giving all the users
> access to the 2nd machine as well.

I've not done this, but have thought about it. What about just creating
a suitable dir structure, and then chroot'ing it so radiusd thinks it's
reading /etc/passswd /etc/shadow, but is really reading /radiusd/etc/passwd?

You'd need copies or hard links to such things as libs, /etc/services,
and perhaps a few other things.

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