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Re: Authentication

On Mon, Dec 14, 1998 at 12:27:42PM -0600, Brian Baggett wrote:
> Can someone point me in the right direction to get external programs to
> authenticate off of LDAP? 

There is, unfortunately, not a lot of info out there. I ran into the same
problem myself.

> I want to use the Radiator radius server to
> authenticate off encrypted passwords in LDAP, but I don't know where to
> start.  Any pointers would be greatly appreciated.

The key is to find the bits of the program which call getpwnam() (or
equivalent), and replace it with your own function which calls LDAP to grab
the appropriate information.

This is obviously a lot easier if you have the source. :)

I'm not personally familiar with Radiator, but I've modified other radius
programs to authenticate off of an LDAP data store.

josh

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Josh Tiefenbach - Member - ACC Corps of Internet Engineers - josh@ican.net