On Sun, 2007-09-02 at 15:36 +0100, George Beitis wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> I have a general question regarding Authorization in the RADIUS protocol
> and how it is implemented in freeradius. What does the RADIUS protocol
> refer to when it talks about Authorization, does it actually refer to
> users
Hi George
I guess it is more a question of definition of the scope of the
authorization and authentication than of the actual mechanisms. I
would invite you to read the RADIUS RFCs since your conclusions sound
a little bit hasty.
In RADIUS and in freeradius in particular the authenticati
On Sep 2, 2007, at 08:52, George Beitis wrote:
Do
you know of any products that can be used with freeradius to provide
such authorization facilities? Using perhaps policies?
I have a number of authorization policies implemented using
FreeRadius. I have a module that implements those poli
George Beitis wrote:
>>> FreeRADIUS *does* implement policies which provide authorization
>>> facilities.
>
> Does this mean that you could actually write policies inside of freeradius?
Not "could", but "can". People do it all of the time. Best estimates
are nearing 100K installations, and
Alan DeKok wrote:
George Beitis wrote:
thank you for your reply. I am writing up a part of my dissertation and
I 'm referring to freeradius and the RADIUS protocol trying to explain
how it works.
By accident, mostly. Like many practical systems, it was built to do
something first,
Hey Alan
>> FreeRADIUS *does* implement policies which provide authorization facilities.
Does this mean that you could actually write policies inside of freeradius?
regards
George
Alan DeKok wrote:
> George Beitis wrote:
>
>> thank you for your reply. I am writing up a part of my dissertat
George Beitis wrote:
> thank you for your reply. I am writing up a part of my dissertation and
> I 'm referring to freeradius and the RADIUS protocol trying to explain
> how it works.
By accident, mostly. Like many practical systems, it was built to do
something first, and to have theoretical
Hey there
thanks for the reply, do you know how they do it though? Is it just
perl scripts that help make a decision? Or do they use authorization
engines of some sort that support policies?
George
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> Hi,
>
>
>> in other words authentication and authorization become
Hi,
> in other words authentication and authorization become one the same. Do
> you know of any products that can be used with freeradius to provide
> such authorization facilities? Using perhaps policies?
a LOT of people on this list use policies with authorization. be
that a trivial one such
Hey Alan,
thank you for your reply. I am writing up a part of my dissertation and
I 'm referring to freeradius and the RADIUS protocol trying to explain
how it works. From my research most people who use RADIUS for
authentication purposes. Noone gives a clear image of whether or not
they use it
George Beitis wrote:
> I have a general question regarding Authorization in the RADIUS protocol
> and how it is implemented in freeradius. What does the RADIUS protocol
> refer to when it talks about Authorization, does it actually refer to
> users being probably authorized after being authenticat
Hi everyone,
I have a general question regarding Authorization in the RADIUS protocol
and how it is implemented in freeradius. What does the RADIUS protocol
refer to when it talks about Authorization, does it actually refer to
users being probably authorized after being authenticated, using the
pr
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