are you trying to authenticate users based from password with MySQL tables or from system files (passwd), you could try to authenticate them by either MySQL tables (passwords and usernames are stored there) or by system (passwd/shadow) files but, usernames still exist in MySQL tables for a purpose..or i am lost again from what are you trying to achieve... //milver
----- Original Message ----- From: "Bob Ross" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, April 16, 2004 4:52 PM Subject: Re: Migrate from Cistron > My little understanding is that the user passwords or in the mySQL data base > so radius can do CHAP authentication because of needing the clear text. They > would still be added to the system files for email and the other services. > If you userdel them from the system files, the mySQL database is not > automatically updated to remove them. Or if you only passwd -l (lock) > username the mySQL database is not automatically updated. > > They would still be able to log in because the mySQL database was not > updated. > > Or am I wrong here? > > I don't want to have to manually update the mySQL database. That could get > real hard if you have thousands of entries in there. > > > > > I don't understand why you'd need to update SQL if the system > > (/etc/passwd?) files are updated. > > > > Alan DeKok. > > > > - > > List info/subscribe/unsubscribe? See > http://www.freeradius.org/list/users.html > > > > > > > - > List info/subscribe/unsubscribe? See http://www.freeradius.org/list/users.html > > - List info/subscribe/unsubscribe? See http://www.freeradius.org/list/users.html
