Greg Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >On Thu, 15 Nov 2007 00:22:02 +0100, Rhialto wrote: > >> Radius is an authentication server. > >Right, and it's a MS Windows thing, of some sort.
It's most definitely not. See http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2865.txt. > Probably it manages passwords, or something similar. An authentication server typically *verifies* user's passwords, of course this may require some management of same. > So a Radius server might be invoked >by some MS Windows-oriented software if there is some reason to >think you need to cough up a password, but something went wrong >when Radius was asked for your password. No, typically a news server (or POP/IMAP server, or HTTP server, or ...) that requires authentication might ask the Radius server to verify the username/password pair entered by the user. >Why would you need a password? Neither of the News servers >I use require passwords. Well, maybe you offered a password >when you (not you personally, actually, Pan) tried to open a >connection with your News server. So I suggest you look at >what you told Pan about this News server to make sure you >didn't supply some info (like a password) which would lead >Pan to think it ought to engage in an authentication >dialogue (unless, of course, it ought to). Could be a possibility, but as far as I know no NNTP clients (including Pan) will attempt to authenticate unless prompted by the NNTP server via a 480 response. >What could have gone wrong when Radius was asked to supply >a password for you? The most obvious thing is that you have >no Radius server at all. That would lead to an error. Per above, Radius servers don't supply passwords, they require that you supply passwords to them. >I think Radius servers are things you expect to find on local >networks, so there is a good possibility that this mistaken >invocation of Radius is a local problem and has nothing to do >with Earthlink. No. --Per Hedeland _______________________________________________ Pan-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pan-users
