RADIUS and mgetty

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Hi,

On Wed, Aug 04, 1999 at 10:13:30PM -0500, Robert W. Canary wrote:
> Yes and No.    My question come from the experience of portslave which is a dialin getty like mgetty.  Except mgetty (I think) is geared more
> for the in-general-single-machine use.  (single machine in the way it authenticates).   While being able to accept or reject calls based on the
> incoming phone number,  mgetty has some the capabilities of portslave.    However a central machine for authetication is an absolute must for
> dialin networks.   I love useing mgetty I think it is great.  I use it on my dialin lines now.   However, I need to extend my ability to
> authenticate from outside my network.   That is my I need a RADIUS server.   However, I sure wish there was a way to use mgetty with it.

Actually, the authentication stage is done by /bin/login, not by
mgetty - so all one would have to do is write a "login" replacement
that queries not /etc/passwd but the radius database...

gert
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