It's been a few weeks since the survey was started. Thanks to
everyone who entered their data. The results are still coming in at
about 25 per day, so I expect that these numbers will change over
time. So far, we have a bit over 500 responses, which makes the data
very useful.
I won't get into a detailed explanation of the results, but I will
hilight the numbers. I'll see if I can put some graphs on
freeradius.org in a few days, too. We have the most interesting
result first:
== Total number of users who are authenticated via FreeRADIUS: 100,000,000
That's impressive. The top 30 sites alone have over 75 million
users who are using RADIUS for authentication. With those numbers,
it looks like 10% or more of people on the net are authenticated via
FreeRADIUS. If we assume that a number of large sites haven't
entered their data on the survey, then the percentage is probably
much higher, like 25%.
FreeRADIUS looks like it's the server of choice for the Internet.
Maybe we'll make that the new slogan...
== Total number of RADIUS servers
Many sites (70%) only have 1-2, with 95% of sites having 10 or fewer
servers. About 1% has 50-100 servers, though, which is impressive.
== Databases
MySQL is the clear winner at 30%. Next comes the users file at
10%, OpenLDAP at 17%, and Active Directory at 14%.
== Password hashes
40% of passwords are stored as cleartext, 25% as Crypt, 20% as MD5,
and 13% as NT hash.
== Authentication Protocols
PAP and CHAP are paired at about 20%. But PEAP, EAP-TLS, and TTLS
are each about 10%, too.
== Configuration updates
75% of sites change their configuration monthly to never. That
statistic goes a long way to explaining why so few people need
official support. :)
== Other RADIUS servers
ACS and IAS are tied at about 25% each. Cistron and OpenRADIUS are
at about 10%, and Funk Radiator are just under 10%.
It looks like FreeRADIUS isn't in the top 5 of RADIUS servers, it's
in the top 3, and maybe is even number one!
And a large number of people have *never* used a server other than
FreeRADIUS. I'm glad to see it's well received.
== Why FreeRADIUS?
Open source, cost, and feature set all came in at about 20% each.
== What do you need most from FreeRADIUS?
Something called documentation beat out the next nearest response
by nearly 2:1. We'll see if we can work on that.
Anyways, thanks for all of the response. We'll use the information
to target development for future releases.
Alan DeKok.
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