On Fri, May 07, 2004 at 02:10:33PM +0800, Rogelio Carrillo Jr. B. wrote: > Hello All: > > I have a mandrake 9.2 running in our server. I want to make a setup > that make this server act as RADIUS (remote dial-in user services) that > will provide a remote dial-up access to our selected employee. Is there > any way to solve this problem or step-by-step procedure to follow, what > are their requirements in order to achieve this setup plan.
Before you think of doing RADIUS, ask yourself if what it provides is really what you need, because setting up a complete and comprehensive RADIUS system is not a trivial task that you can do by just following step by step instructions (I should know, as I've actually been there and done that several times)... Do you need fine-grain accounting, so you can determine with precision how long your users have been online? Is the number of your users significant (and by significant I mean in the 50 to 100 or more range), and would you have a lot of lines to support them? Do you want to impose restrictions on what times and for how long your users can stay online? If the answer to most or all of these questions is no, then RADIUS is probably overkill for you. mgetty+sendfax should do the trick of providing your inbound users with connectivity quite nicely, and take care of all the work of allowing the user to authenticate themselves against a simple flat file. This document should describe the process clearly enough for you to do it yourself: http://www.swcp.com/~jgentry/pers.html In any case, the terminal server setup described there should, with the help of additional software like a pppd that is also a RADIUS client, such as: http://www.xs4all.nl/~evbergen/radius-pppd.html be the client side of a complete RADIUS system if you decide to take the trouble to set one up in the future. -- Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Official Website: http://plug.linux.org.ph Searchable Archives: http://marc.free.net.ph . To leave, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/plug . Are you a Linux newbie? To join the newbie list, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/ph-linux-newbie
