Re: [Fwd: Re: Changing RADIUS Passwords]

2001-10-25 Thread Chaminda Rathnasinghe
HI John It is working. thank you. chaminda John Blumel wrote: > On 10/25/01 2:05 AM, Chaminda Rathnasinghe wrote: > > >I would like to know how to set bin/false users to change their > >passwords as you describe below. > > On Linux, use the '-s' switch with usermod or useradd (or perhaps ch

Re: [Fwd: Re: Changing RADIUS Passwords]

2001-10-25 Thread John Blumel
On 10/25/01 2:05 AM, Chaminda Rathnasinghe wrote: >I would like to know how to set bin/false users to change their >passwords as you describe below. On Linux, use the '-s' switch with usermod or useradd (or perhaps chuser and adduser on BSD -- syntax may vary). For example, usermod -s /us

[Fwd: Re: Changing RADIUS Passwords]

2001-10-24 Thread Chaminda Rathnasinghe
Hi John I would like to know how to set bin/false users to change their passwords as you describe below. thank you chami Original Message Subject: Re: Changing RADIUS Passwords Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2001 09:27:52 -0500 From: "John Blumel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Changing RADIUS Passwords

2001-10-24 Thread aland
"John Blumel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've played with this and it seems to work ok. How would you evaluate > this as a security risk? It's not a serious risk, in my opinion. The only thing I would do is to limit where people can telnet from. You should allow telnets from your dial-up p

Re: Changing RADIUS Passwords

2001-10-24 Thread John Blumel
On Tue, 23 Oct 2001 16:39:37 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Set their shell on the Unix system to '/bin/passwd', or whatever >other password changing tool you want. They can then log in to >change their password, and do nothing else. I've played with this and it seems to work ok. How would

Re: Changing RADIUS Passwords

2001-10-23 Thread Kostas Kalevras
On Tue, 23 Oct 2001, John Blumel wrote: > Hi, > > I'm looking into using RADIUS for authentication of remote dial-in and VPN users >and, > since I'm completely new to RADIUS, I was hoping I could pose a few questions to the > list... > > 1. freeRADIUS is officially listed as beta software bu

Changing RADIUS Passwords

2001-10-23 Thread John Blumel
[I sent the following email earlier today and just noticed that my email client has html email formatting enabled again -- somehow it keeps getting reenabled. Hopefully, the list server just swallowed it but if you do/did receive it as html, please accept this apology as such.] Hi, I'm lookin

Re: Changing RADIUS Passwords

2001-10-23 Thread aland
"John Blumel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 1. freeRADIUS is officially listed as beta software but is anyone > using it in production and/or do you feel that it is mature and > stable enough to do so. A number of people use it in production, and it seems to be stable. > 2. We would like to gi

Changing RADIUS Passwords

2001-10-23 Thread John Blumel
Hi, I'm looking into using RADIUS for authentication of remote dial-in and VPN users and, since I'm completely new to RADIUS, I was hoping I could pose a few questions to the list... 1. freeRADIUS is officially listed as beta software but is anyone using it in production and/or do you feel th