<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Since some servers require vendor-specific attributes, I wonder if the
> pam_module supports these:
> - in Access-request, the radius client sends one or more vendor-specific
> attributes on top of the usual attributes

  WHICH vendor-specific, and WHY?  How would you configure these?

  The short answer is that you can't, unless you modify the code.

> - in the Access-challenge, the radius client reports the reply-message +
> one or more vendor-specific attributes to the application on top of the
> regular attributes
> - in the second Access request, the radius client sends in the response
> one or more vendor specific attributes +  regular attributes. 
> 
> Have anybody tries these? Can a PAM module at all support usage of
> vendor-specific attributes?

  No.

> if not, what do you think needs to be modified to allow this to happen?
> Would that be a big work? A suggestion would be that the application
> merely provides the vendor-ID, vendor type vendor length and value field
> to the PAM module. 

  How?  PAM doesn't do this.

> The radius client then transparently forwards the request to the
> server without altering it.

  If the application can create a RADIUS request, why the heck are you
trying to use PAM?

> In the other way round, the client detects the vendor specific
> fields and reports them to the application without processing it any
> further.

  How?  PAM doesn't do this.

  Alan DeKok.

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