Dear Vic Abell,

Imagine  you're  coming  to your president's room

 Secretary: do you have an appointment?
 Mr. Abell: Yes, my name is Vic Abel

 Secretary  gets  your  name and looks into timetable and finds required
 record  (that's  authorization  is).  Than she checks time and name are
 valid (it's authentication).

 Secretary: Oh, yes, Mr. Abell, you can come in.

You  can't  authenticate  user before you authorize him just because you
don't know if information provided by user is valid or not.
 

--Tuesday, July 16, 2002, 3:53:07 PM, you wrote to [EMAIL PROTECTED]:

VA> I'm new to the Radius protocol, just having finished
VA> implementing a module for access to a private
VA> authentication service.

VA> During development one thing struck me as odd:
VA> authorization checks are done before the entity being
VA> authorized is authenticated.

VA> It's been my experience that before an entity is
VA> authorized it should be asked to prove itself via
VA> authentication.

VA> Why does the Radius protocol reverse the order of
VA> authentication and authorization?

VA> Vic Abell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

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