RE: authenticate via etc/shadow intead of users

2011-03-22 Thread Raheel Itrat


Authentication requests currently come from cisco routers and switches mostly, 
probably would have to add servers as well in future. 
Sodoes it mean that freeradius server will respond by default to the 
requests from cisco routers and switches whose users I have added in 
etc/shadow? 



From: ggat...@waddell.com
To: freeradius-users@lists.freeradius.org
Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2011 15:41:07 -0500
Subject: RE: authenticate via etc/shadow intead of users








Yup – I *think* the “unix” module (*nix) is enabled by default, so it should 
just work.  Perhaps check your radiusd.conf and $radius/sites-enabled/default 
to ensure it’s enabled.  But, I guess it may depend on what type of 
authentication requests you are speaking of.
 




From: freeradius-users-bounces+ggatten=waddell@lists.freeradius.org 
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Behalf Of Raheel Itrat
Sent: Monday, March 21, 2011 3:11 PM
To: freeradius-users@lists.freeradius.org
Subject: RE: authenticate via etc/shadow intead of users
 
Thanks Alan, what I am actually trying to achieve is to authenticate users 
against our Linux /etc/shadow or /etc/password/ files. I don't want to use the 
USERS file as it stores passwords in clear text which is what we're trying to 
avoid.








 Hi,
 
  I am a newbie to free radius, I need to know what changes are required in
  radiusd.conf or any other file in order to authenticate clients requests
  through local machine users(etc/passwd or etc/shadow) instead of making
  users in the raddb/users file.
 
 add users to the system passwd/shadow file, ensure that the 'unix' module
 is enabled. 
 
 answer based on the scarce info provided
 
 alan
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authenticate via etc/shadow intead of users

2011-03-21 Thread Raheel Itrat

Hi,

I am a newbie to free radius, I need to know what changes are required in 
radiusd.conf or any other file in order to authenticate clients requests 
through local machine users(etc/passwd or etc/shadow) instead of making users 
in the raddb/users file. 

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Re: authenticate via etc/shadow intead of users

2011-03-21 Thread Alan Buxey
Hi,

I am a newbie to free radius, I need to know what changes are required in
radiusd.conf or any other file in order to authenticate clients requests
through local machine users(etc/passwd or etc/shadow) instead of making
users in the raddb/users file.

add users to the system passwd/shadow file, ensure that the 'unix' module
is enabled. 

answer based on the scarce info provided

alan
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RE: authenticate via etc/shadow intead of users

2011-03-21 Thread Raheel Itrat

Thanks Alan, what I am actually trying to achieve is to authenticate users 
against our Linux /etc/shadow or /etc/password/ files. I don't want to use the 
USERS file as it stores passwords in clear text which is what we're trying to 
avoid.








 Hi,
 
 I am a newbie to free radius, I need to know what changes are required in
 radiusd.conf or any other file in order to authenticate clients requests
 through local machine users(etc/passwd or etc/shadow) instead of making
 users in the raddb/users file.
 
 add users to the system passwd/shadow file, ensure that the 'unix' module
 is enabled. 
 
 answer based on the scarce info provided
 
 alan
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RE: authenticate via etc/shadow intead of users

2011-03-21 Thread Gary Gatten
Yup - I *think* the unix module (*nix) is enabled by default, so it should 
just work.  Perhaps check your radiusd.conf and $radius/sites-enabled/default 
to ensure it's enabled.  But, I guess it may depend on what type of 
authentication requests you are speaking of.


From: freeradius-users-bounces+ggatten=waddell@lists.freeradius.org 
[mailto:freeradius-users-bounces+ggatten=waddell@lists.freeradius.org] On 
Behalf Of Raheel Itrat
Sent: Monday, March 21, 2011 3:11 PM
To: freeradius-users@lists.freeradius.org
Subject: RE: authenticate via etc/shadow intead of users

Thanks Alan, what I am actually trying to achieve is to authenticate users 
against our Linux /etc/shadow or /etc/password/ files. I don't want to use the 
USERS file as it stores passwords in clear text which is what we're trying to 
avoid.








 Hi,

  I am a newbie to free radius, I need to know what changes are required in
  radiusd.conf or any other file in order to authenticate clients requests
  through local machine users(etc/passwd or etc/shadow) instead of making
  users in the raddb/users file.

 add users to the system passwd/shadow file, ensure that the 'unix' module
 is enabled.

 answer based on the scarce info provided

 alan
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Re: authenticate via etc/shadow intead of users

2011-03-21 Thread Alan Buxey
Hi,

Thanks Alan, what I am actually trying to achieve is to authenticate users
against our Linux /etc/shadow or /etc/password/ files. I don't want to use
the USERS file as it stores passwords in clear text which is what we're
trying to avoid.

it CAN store the passwords in clear text - it can also have them encrypted eg 
SHA1
(man rlm_pap) - but it depends what type of authentication you want to use.
you can also store in NThash format (which will give you better compatibility)

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