John Duino <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Well, as I stated, I am a newbie at Radius and FreeRadius, and thus, do > not know all the 'proper' terms. And if I knew how to completely phrase > my question I would probably know how to solve it!
The issue isn't so much phrasing as intent. You described what you were doing, not what you wanted. > > If you edit it to add "Class", or "Filter-Id", it will be a little > > better. > > Well, again, if I knew exactly of which I speak, I would not be asking > for help. I'm sorry, but I expect people to be able to read the configuration file, and make some simple conclusions from it. In this case, you expected a configuration which had NO MENTION of "Class" or "Filter-Id" to somehow magically use them. > > The "passwd" module doesn't read directories. It reads files. It's > > documented as reading files. It's not documented as interacting with > > NIS. > > I'm a bit confused then: if it doesn't read directories (as in a > directory server, eg NIS) how is it currently authenticating me via NIS? It's not. The passwd module doesn't authenticate anyone. You're probalby using system authentication. In that case, there's a system call used by FreeRADIUS to get the user's password. That system call eventually ends up using NIS, but FreeRADIUS doesn't know that. > I am asking for help in configuring freeradius; what do I need to > do? Is module example "passwd etc_group" the correct place to start? > If so, and since I thought I already did that and it did not work > for me, what am I doing wrong? I told you. Replace "Group-Name" with "Class" or "Filter-Id". Point the "/etc/group" configuration at a group file from the /etc/group directory on your system. Alan DeKok. - List info/subscribe/unsubscribe? See http://www.freeradius.org/list/users.html
