I think I see now why our system office is recommending a Radius server. It is their intention to provide a copy of the names and passwords, updating them every few hours, for the students located at our campus.
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. Does this make sense? Mahalo, Normand Dionne Academic Computing Services UH Hilo website: www.uhh.hawaii.edu -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On 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 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. > I'll check out SAMBA too and Mike H suggested. For doing authentication from a Windows machine, Samba is your ONLY answer. Alan DeKok. - List info/subscribe/unsubscribe? See http://www.freeradius.org/list/users.html - List info/subscribe/unsubscribe? See http://www.freeradius.org/list/users.html
