I don't know what Radius is, but Red Hat has been including LDAP
authentication for a couple of releases now. If you can authenticate
against your LDAP database now, you should be able to set up the Red Hat
box to use the same database for authentication.
mgetty itself is not concerned with your authentication method; it just
picks up the phone and then turns the connection over to some other
process; login in the case of a terminal server, or pppd in the case of
a dialup networking server. As long as login can be made LDAP-aware,
you should be fine.
I'd probably start by setting up the Red Hat box to authenticate against
LDAP (available as an option during the installation process), and
verifying that you can log in at the console using your LDAP account.
Once that's done, LDAP stops being an issue and you can concentrate on
making mgetty handle your modem.
-m
Corisen wrote:
>
> i'm setting up a linux admin server on my company network so that i can
> dial-in to the admin server from home and access the company network. i'm
> hoping that this dial-in server is able to use radius to authenticate with
> ldap. is "mgetty" the only program i need to set up a dial-in server (to
> simulate a terminal server) other than radius/ldap server? would appreciate
> if you can advise some sites where i can get more information on setting up
> a linux dial-in server. thanks.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Michael R. Jinks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Thursday, November 30, 2000 11:59 PM
> Subject: Re: dial-in server on linux?
>
> > Depends on what you mean by "dial-in". Most people usually mean dial-up
> > networking services, in which you use your modem as a netork interface.
> > In that case, the place to go is the PPP HOWTO
> >
> > http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/PPP-HOWTO/
> >
> > The software you'll need will be the pppd daemon (available on a Red Hat
> > CD if not already installed on your system) and some sort of serial line
> > control program; I've always used mgetty, I think that it also comes on
> > the Red Hat CD.
> >
> > If what you want is terminal dialup -- dial your modem, get a login
> > session -- that's a lot easier, all you need is the serial line control
> > program, mgetty by itself should do the trick.
> >
> > Good luck,
> > -m
> >
> > Corisen wrote:
> > >
> > > hi, how can i implement a dial-in server using a linux box? is there any
> > > how-to? are the service already installed in RH7? or do i need to
> download a
> > > dial-in server program? which program is recommended?
> > >
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