On Tue, 12 Mar 2002 13:05:54 -0500
"Alan DeKok" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Normand Dionne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > What that means is we will, not be authenticating NT or 2000 PCs via a Unix
> > box, per say. We will make the requests to the Radius server with a reduced
> > copy of the Un
Normand Dionne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> What that means is we will, not be authenticating NT or 2000 PCs via a Unix
> box, per say. We will make the requests to the Radius server with a reduced
> copy of the Unix password file on it.
If the NT and 2000 machines can do authentication via RAD
Behalf Of Alan DeKok
Sent: Monday, March 11, 2002 12:40 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Can we import UNIX account data to a Radius server?
Normand Dionne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> What if we could import our Unix names and passwords to a Radius server?
No. The RADIUS se
Normand Dionne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> What if we could import our Unix names and passwords to a Radius server?
No. The RADIUS server is a daemon which does authentication. It's
not a database of username/passwords.
It *uses* a database, one of which can be the Unix /etc/passwd file.
What about looking at it this way...
What if we could import our Unix names and passwords to a Radius server?
Does this sound like what Radius is used for?
I'll check out SAMBA too and Mike H suggested.
Mahalo for your help.
Normand Dionne
Academic Computing Services
UH Hilo website: www.uhh.
