Re: (ASCEND) Radius and unix password files

[John Coy <jcoy@anc.net>]

I've modified the stock Ascend RADIUS daemon to authenticate
from a separate password file.  I have also modified it so that it 
performs case-insensitive username matching against the
password file.  However, my mods use both a passwd and a shadow
file.  I have tested my mods ONLY on a Sun Sparc Solaris 2.5.1
machine.  Your C library needs to have the functions
fgetpwent() and fgetspent().

If you're interested in these mods, you can download them
from my web page at:

http://www2.arkansas.net/~jcoy/radiusd-jcoy-981129.tar.gz

I want to mention that I am not a C guru, I cannot provide
much support, and I don't guarantee this will work for you.
However, I have it in a production environment for about
20,000 dial-up users and it has been working since December 98.

As an alternative, you may want to look at Radiator
(a great Radius daemon).  Visit http://www.open.com.au/radiator/.
I am working with it now to replace the stock Ascend
daemon and it is meeting most (if not all) of my needs.

John



At 11:48 AM 7/19/99 +0100, you wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I wonder if anyone out there can help me with a problem.
>
>We are running the free Ascend radius on a UNIX server. We want to
>point radius at a UNIX password file by just having a default user
>with the password UNIX. The problem is that we have a separate password
>file for our dialup users - something other than /etc/passwd.
>Has anyone successfully altered radiusd.c so that it doesn't use 
>getpwnam and somehow gets passwords from a password file other than 
>/etc/passwd?
>
>Or is there another way around this problem as we really don't want to
>have to dedicate a server specifically for radius?
>
>Any advice is very welcome.
>
>thanks in advance,
>Colin
>
>----------------------
>Colin M Shaw
>Systems Support Officer
>University of Aberdeen
>c.m.shaw@abdn.ac.uk
>
>
>
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