On Tue, 2003-03-04 at 11:22, Alan DeKok wrote:
> Josh Howlett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > In the docs, it states the mod_radius_auth does not support digest
> > authentication.
> > 
> > Is this by virtue of it being impossible-in-principle, or merely
> > as-yet-not-implemented?
> 
>   When the module was written, there was no standard for doing digest
> authentication over RADIUS.  Last year, Cisco proposed an IETF
> standard to do this for SIP.  It was rejected, but FreeRADIUS supports
> it.
> 
>   If you can modify mod_auth_radius to pack the digest information
> into RADIUS attributes as per 'doc/rfc/draft-sterman-aaa-sip-00.txt',
> then FreeRADIUS will be able to authenticate them.

To clarify, I want users to authenticate via HTTP via mod_auth_radius
against a remote RADIUS server without the intermediate WWW server (or,
for that matter, anything else) gaining knowledge of the user's
password.

Assuming mod_auth_radius implemented digest authentication, is this a
workable solution?

thanks, josh.

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Josh Howlett, Networking & Digital Communications,
Information Systems & Computing, University of Bristol, U.K.
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