On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 03:37:29PM +1100, Russell Coker wrote: > On Wed, 12 Nov 2003 14:11, Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña wrote: > > That would need a reimplementation of some (all?) of the servers. Wouldn't > > it? Old ones (cistron, livingston) call getpwnam()|getspnam() to retrieve > > the user's encrypted passwords. New ones (freeradius) can alternatively > > talk with a myriad of authentication services... > > Cistron in woody uses PAM so does not appear to have any problems in this > regard. >
The same for my yardradius and probably xtradius. System password checking is present for portability with non-linux platform essentially, and for historical reasons, too. A lots of those servers are derived from the original livingston's implementation, but all add alternatives forms of authentication and accounting. It's an admin's choice. -- Francesco P. Lovergine