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List:       freeradius-users
Subject:    Re: RADIUS and user names
From:       Alan DeKok <aland () deployingradius ! com>
Date:       2017-12-19 21:19:43
Message-ID: E53F3445-0043-4383-973B-926AC112018C () deployingradius ! com
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On Dec 19, 2017, at 2:51 PM, JCA <1.41421@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I have configured my Linux system so that access to it over SSH is
> authenticated by a remote RADIUS servers. This works fine, but the user
> must be defined locally, and it must have a home directory. In my efforts
> to dispense with these requirements, I used a combination of the NSS and
> PAM. This works, but it requires another server out there, be it NIS, or
> LDAP, or something like that.
> 
> Is it not possible to do what I need with a RADIUS server alone? Or is it
> the case tha RADIUS such does not have such capabilities?

  This has nothing to do with RADIUS.  Your local system implements APIs like PAM, \
NASS, and LDAP to manage all of this.

  Alan DeKok.



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