Thx again Milver for your response :) A short explanation is now in order. Its NOT that i dont like getting my feed wet, playing with freeradius, its only that I have played around, installed and configured Cistron Radius for the last week, only to find out that Cistron DOESNT support 802.1x !. My biggest pain with Cistron came with adding users....until i found a webmin module, that allowed me to add users in a "make sense Web based enviroment". But since there is no webbased grafical interface for setting up the freeradius, I only took the liberty of asking the questions in this list, just to make sure i found the right Radius software this time, and since im new to linux, I KNOW i will have trouble adding users in a pure hardcore linux environment. And for your question. Yes im referering to the user files. My goal is to implement a very basic freeradius solution, where users have to authenticate them selves when logging on to the internet. My idea was that I could add users, there info (name, ID, and password only), in the user dir only, and therefor NOT add a database of any sort. Is this possible, and will the authetification work this way, or do I have to implement a database like MYSQL etc. ?
Best Regards Jacob ----- Original Message ----- From: Milver S. Nisay To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, May 30, 2004 5:48 PM Subject: Re: Help adding users >I have a server running Clark Connect, for broadband gateway, firewall, bandwith limiter, snort etc... To this server I have connected a zyxel zyair B-2000 Wireless >accespoint to distribute wireless broadband to the users on the network. Also on the server I want to install freeradius to authenticate users on the wireless network, >> ( as Freeradius is the only one that supports 802.1x). I have no user database installed on the server, but isnt. freeradius cabaple of storing user in its own >database. ?? as far as i know, freeradius does not have its own "database" . that is why we have PostgreSQL, MySQL, etc . are you referring to a file structure where freeradius reads user details like flat files or user files? as i have advised you, make your feet wet with freeradius, try installing freeradius first and let the question comes in one by one. as you are showing by the question you throw to the list, you are not yet trying EVEN to INSTALL freeradius and read the docs that comes with it. dont believe others if they told you that freeradius is good UNTIL you proved it to yourself that it is really flexible and good. you knowledge won't grow with freeradius if you don't try to install it, play with it and have fun with it! here is one general link you can review, this is also in the freeradius list. http://www.frontios.com/freeradius.html if time is critical, and there are some people who offer commercial services and can do it for you, that is if you cant do it by google and the list...you may contact me off the list and i can refer a few :) *wink* good luck! //milver - List info/subscribe/unsubscribe? See http://www.freeradius.org/list/users.html
