[Openswan Users] RADIUS authentication

[Paul Wouters]

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