Hello Tunde -
On Fri, 22 Feb 2002 21:35, Tunde Itayemi wrote: > Hi All, > Please I have some questions. > 1. I haven't been able to configure the SNMP agent section of the > radius.cfg file. the default is: > SNMP > <SNMPAgent> > rocommunity RadiatorCommunity > Port 162 > </SNMPAgent> > I have a RedHat 7.2 system (server installation). > I have taken a look at the snmp configuration file (/etc/snmp/snmpd.conf) > but can't make head or tail of what modifications to make. If I start > radiator with the default config, it complians of the "community" entry in > the radius.cfg file. > Have you installed the SNMP_session module? Section 6.14 in the Radiator 2.19 reference manual ("doc/ref.html"). > 2. Radiator/CHAP/PAP and NASes > I work for an ISP and we are trying to "migrate" away from Windows 2000 > server as our authentication patform. For now, I have radiator installed on > a RedHat 7.2 system configured to authenticate against a remote Oracle > database. My problem is as below. The database contains plaintext user > passwords. If my users configure their dialups to use CHAP, would I still > be able to authenticate them correctly? Currently, the Windows 2000 server > is "properly" configured - under the security tab, when you select RAS > properties, I have selected PAP alone as the authentication method. a. Now, > assume the dialup $ VPN connections on my client machines are set up with > CHAP/MSCHAP, do I need to make any changes? No - as long as you have have cleartext passwords in your database, PAP, CHAP, MS-CHAP are all handled automatically. > b. The RAS->Properties->Security->Authentication method->PAP/EAP/CHAP > etc setting - does it imply the exchange of password data between Win2K and > Radiator OR user and Win2K OR ALL three? > I am not sure what you are referring to here. > My desired objective is to allow my dialup clients to configure their > systems to use CHAP, while I keep my Oracle database with user passwords as > plain text. > As long as the passwords in the database are plain text, you can use whatever authentication method you like. regards Hugh -- Radiator: the most portable, flexible and configurable RADIUS server anywhere. Available on *NIX, *BSD, Windows 95/98/2000, NT, MacOS X. - Nets: internetwork inventory and management - graphical, extensible, flexible with hardware, software, platform and database independence. === Archive at http://www.open.com.au/archives/radiator/ Announcements on [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' with 'unsubscribe radiator' in the body of the message.