[Openswan Users] RADIUS authentication

Paul Wouters paul at xelerance.com
Fri Mar 4 16:37:52 CET 2005


On Fri, 4 Mar 2005, Randy B wrote:

> Has anyone extended Pluto to support authentication beyond local, 'static' 
> entries?  Reason being, I'd really like to perform RADIUS auth in order to 
> cope with the massive scale and user/client device flux my implementation is 
> heading toward.  I've not looked into the code, but it seems rather 
> straightforward to me...  I know I can work with PPP to extend the L2TP 
> authentication to use RADIUS, but I'd like to use it beforehand.  Any input?

You can do (experimental) XAUTH with PAM, and have pam use radius.

Paul


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