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> On Fri, 28 Jun 1996, Mark Colasante wrote:
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> > 3. Is there an alternative to our current plans for authentication using
> > Radius?
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> > 4. To sum it up, what strategy would you use to insure smooth and
> > efficient authentication of dial-up ppp customers using PM30e units and
> > Radius with this number of users?
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> We are planning to go to having an entry in radius for each user, complete
> with password. This is more efficient than the password file, because it
> can use indexed lookup instead of searching throught the flat password
> file. If you have shadow passwords, it actually has to search though two
> flat files!
Not if you define NBBM and friends when you build shadow, then it uses
DBM files and is smokingly fast. We do it here.
> The big problem with this is that the password can't be encrypted in the
> radius database. I am currently exploring hacks to resolve that.
No need.
Later,
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