Authentication flow

2008-09-18 Thread Sudarshan Soma
I have three authentication modules -- pam_radius_auth.so (for remote authentication) -- pam_unix ( unix local authentication) -- pam_opie (challenge/response) and other accounting modules such as pam_abl, which does user lockout/iplocking. I would like to choose a better authentication for

Re: Radius users state

2008-09-16 Thread Sudarshan Soma
Thanks Ivan for your valuable inputs. I would look at rlm_perl, if i have to lock radius users. On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 6:06 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [Pavan] If NAS has a requirement that - user with privilage level 2 should not be locked on 4 consecutive invalid attempts. In this case i

Re: invalid login attempts user lockout

2008-08-14 Thread Sudarshan Soma
Thanks Alan. I saw a reference for considering attribute PASSWORD-RETRY in freeradius to implement user lockout. So could you please let me know if there are any plans to include this in the upcoming releases. Thanks again, Pavan On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 8:47 PM, Alan DeKok [EMAIL PROTECTED]

invalid login attempts user lockout

2008-08-12 Thread Sudarshan Soma
Hi All, Does anyone know of RadiusServer denying access for a particular user after a configurable number of invalid login attempts. I know this can be done on the client side with pam modules. But i thought since radius users are same across multple nodes connected to radiusserver, it would be an

Re: invalid login attempts user lockout

2008-08-12 Thread Sudarshan Soma
Iam sorry , i think i found similar reference in the mailing list. http://lists.freeradius.org/mailman/htdig/freeradius-users/2005-November/msg00057.html thanks all. On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 12:34 PM, Sudarshan Soma [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All, Does anyone know of RadiusServer denying

EAP/TLS/CHAP versus open SSH

2008-06-24 Thread Sudarshan Soma
Hi, Iam planning to secure telnet/http connections from any linux/windows box. for this iam using pam_opie PAM module which basically is one form of OTP(one time passwd) authentication module. The authenticator is a linux box, so should i go for open ssh or PPP protocol like OTP (using pam_opie

Re: generating ACCESS-CHALLENGE from radius server

2008-06-23 Thread Sudarshan Soma
, 2008 at 9:07 PM, Sudarshan Soma [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi , I am planning to simulate ACCESS-CHALLENGE to authenticate the client which i plan to add it in pam-radius module (pam_radius-1.3.17) with out using radius server. Iam still reading the docs, incase if someone helps me

generating ACCESS-CHALLENGE from radius server

2008-06-18 Thread Sudarshan Soma
Hi , I am planning to simulate ACCESS-CHALLENGE to authenticate the client which i plan to add it in pam-radius module (pam_radius-1.3.17) with out using radius server. Iam still reading the docs, incase if someone helps me with the following queries, it would be really helpful. I learned that

Chap Authentication failure

2008-06-17 Thread Sudarshan Soma
Hi, Iam trying to understand CHALLENGE RESPONSE behaviour. I have tried to use CHAP protocol and issued the following. echo 'User-Name=userX'; echo 'CHAP-Password=stealme' | /usr/local/bin/radclient -x 192.168.11.94:1812 auth testing12 It gives me the following error: User-Name=userX Sending

Re: Chap Authentication failure

2008-06-17 Thread Sudarshan Soma
= 0x5514442c350a2fbb54e47ee2d499a3bcfe rad_recv: Access-Accept packet from host 192.168.11.94:1812, id=85, length=20 On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 6:43 PM, Alan DeKok [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sudarshan Soma wrote: Hi, Iam trying to understand CHALLENGE RESPONSE behaviour. I have tried to use CHAP protocol and issued the following