Re: unix users and radius bootstrapping (fwd)

MegaZone (megazone@livingston.com)
Tue, 25 Jun 1996 06:40:28 -0700 (PDT)

Once upon a time John Simpson shaped the electrons to say...
>accounts are on... if the secondary radius server is also using unix passwords
>for radius, wouldn't the user have to change their password on both machines
>in order to know for certain that their new password would be the one that the
>radius server authenticates against? if the password change only affects the

Yes, which is why you run a cron job to do the updating.

>one way around this would be to run nis or something that allows a shared
>password database, and put a line like this (we don't run nis here so i'm not
>100% sure of the syntax.)

That's another option.

-MZ

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