> Is there any advantage of using a RADIUS Server Are you using 802.1x with your switches, or one of the other methods? If you're using 802.1x, freeRADIUS is used as the backend authentication server.
>While I was reading the the PacketFence Administration Guide; I read that >PacketFence can authenticate users via a flat file, an >LDAP/AD Server, or >RADIUS Server I believe that's just for the captive portal Cheers, Mark -----Original Message----- From: Alberto Chavez [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: 17 October 2011 14:50 To: [email protected] Subject: [Packetfence-users] freeRadius and OpenLDAP Dear members of the community, First I'd like to thank all the people who answered my last message, I never received the answers into my inbox, but I checked it on the archive. I finally installed, and configured PacketFence and FreeRADIUS. While I was reading the the PacketFence Administration Guide; I read that PacketFence can authenticate users via a flat file, an LDAP/AD Server, or RADIUS Server, and under the section FreeRADIUS Configuration, there are 3 options: Authentication against Active Directory, Local Authentication and Authentication against LDAP, being the last one shown as "To be contributed..." I was wondering, why is it necessary to install and configure a RADIUS Server, if PacketFence can directly authenticate against an LDAP Server? Is there any advantage of using a RADIUS Server? does it add another layer of security? I know that the guide mentions that under some configurations, it is mandatory a RADIUS Server, and even if we do not plan to use it, it is recommended to install it, I'd like to know why. Another thing is if somebody have configured FreeRADIUS against OpenLDAP, would it be possible to tell me where to find proper documentation in order to do it myself? I am not expecting to answer all of my questions, but I'd like to know if some of you can point me to the right place to start looking my answers. Thank you so much for your support! Alberto P.S. Another thing, does somebody have an idea why I don't get the replies in my inbox? I can only read them through the archive. Nuffield College is a Registered Charity No. 1137506. Registered Office: Nuffield College, New Road, Oxford, OX1 1NF ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a definitive record of customers, application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. Business sense. IT sense. Common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2d-oct _______________________________________________ Packetfence-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/packetfence-users
