On Wed, 26 Nov 2008, David Parter wrote:

>> I'm looking for a GINA agent that I can install on windows to have it
>> authenticate against a radius server that does the challenge/response
>> authentication option (which requires asking for the userid, going to the
>> radius server to get a challenge, then getting the response from the user)
>>
>> as I search it seems that the common tool for this was pgina, but the
>> author just pronounced it abandonware.
>
> I think I would take a good look at pgina anyway. If the current version
> can do what you need, it is stable, and (as far as I know) used in many
> places.
>
> It may not be a great long-term solution, but it may be a reasonable
> interim solution until either another project lead vollunteers, or
> something else comes along.

I'll look into it.

> I think what Doug has been suggesting is to use samba on *ix configured
> to do radius authentication as the back-end (via pam?) and use the
> native windows tools/gina for prompting the user. I have not looked
> into that at all.

that approach would not work since I need the challenge/response sequence 
to have the token work.

David Lang
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