SUMMARY: RADIUS authentication - is there a free solution?

From: Walter R. Moore (moorewr@eckerd.edu)
Date: Thu Sep 04 1997 - 07:39:08 CDT


My question was: is it possible to do RADIUS authentication with free
software. The answer was a resounding yes..

Here are two sites:
> Livingston http://www.livingston.com/Forms/one-click-dnload.html
> Merit http://www.merit.edu/radius/

We use the RADIUS package from Livingston to serve passwords from our UNIX box
to a USR modem pool.. its working perfectly so far.

Thanks to everyone who responded! As usual, my thank yous are badly
delayed... your messageas are attached for everyone's edification..

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According to Walter R. Moore:
>
> We've just purchased a USR netServer 16. This is a modem pool...
>
> We are very interested in using the password tables from our Sun to handle
> authentication on the netServer for PPP. USR claims its possible through a
> seperate product called Total Control Manager Solaris- this product uses
> RADIUS to talk to the modem server.
>
> So my question: since I can't use Tacacs, is there a freely available Radius
> server out there?

Yep. You might want to take a look at our Merit AAA Server (which
also supports TACACS, BTW!)

   http://www.merit.edu/aaa/

It is available for a license fee and for no charge in a slightly
reduced form. Good luck!

Regards,

web...

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>
> We've just purchased a USR netServer 16. This is a modem pool...
>
> We are very interested in using the password tables from our Sun to handle
> authentication on the netServer for PPP. USR claims its possible through a
> seperate product called Total Control Manager Solaris- this product uses
> RADIUS to talk to the modem server.
>
> So my question: since I can't use Tacacs, is there a freely available Radius
> server out there?
>
> Thanks in advance. You are, collectively, amazing!
> -Walter Moore
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There are several free radius servers.
The most popular are Livingston and Merit versions. The both are based
on the livingston code (Livingston developed radius). Merit, I believe, has
has done its own things to Radius. We are using Ascend Max dialin
servers and Ascend has a radius server based on Livingston's code. Works
well.

Livingston http://www.livingston.com/Forms/one-click-dnload.html
Merit http://www.merit.edu/radius/

Troy

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Check out www.livingston.com

They have a version of radius (1.16) that's free for taking. I believe
you can get it as source, or precompiled binary.

Good Luck!
Mark

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Hi,
        download RADIUS from livingston's ftp site and install on your machine.
        ftp://ftp.livingston.com

Walter R. Moore wrote:
>
> We've just purchased a USR netServer 16. This is a modem pool...
>
> We are very interested in using the password tables from our Sun to handle
> authentication on the netServer for PPP. USR claims its possible through a
> seperate product called Total Control Manager Solaris- this product uses
> RADIUS to talk to the modem server.
>
> So my question: since I can't use Tacacs, is there a freely available Radius
> server out there?
>
> Thanks in advance. You are, collectively, amazing!
> -Walter Moore
> --
> +-------------------------------------------------------------------
> Walter R. Moore - System Administrator
> moorewr@eckerd.edu
> http://www.eckerd.edu/~moorewr

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Walter,

  We use Merit Radius. They have both a free version and a commercial
version(we use the free one).
  its at " ftp.merit.edu".

  Also, the inventors of RADIUS, Livinston Communications has their RADIUS
Software at "ftp.livingston.com"
Even though I use Livingston Term Servers, I haven't used this product. It
has some enhancements in it that can only be used by Livingston's latest
COMOS, so I'm not sure how it'll work with USR's OS(which used to be an old
buggy version of COMOS licensed from Livingston).

Also, the feature you mentioned (using the unix passwd file ) is statndard
in all RADIUS implementations

For example, our Merit radius user file contains the following(among other
things):

 DEFAULT Authentication-Type = Unix-PW
        Filter-Id = "unlim",
        Service-Type = Framed,
        Framed-Protocol = PPP,
        Framed-IP-Netmask = 255.255.255.0,
        Framed-Routing = None,
        Framed-MTU = 1500,
        Framed-Compression = Van-Jacobson-TCP-IP

dwoodruf
bcaisse
lenit

What this does, is set up a PPP connection for the users dwoodruf, bcaisse,
lenit, etc., when the get autheticated, and the passwd information comes
from the UNIX Passwd file.

Hope this helps.

Mark S. Velasquez, M.Sc. Engineering
Arisian Software, Inc./Internet Consultants


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On Mon, 18 Aug 1997, Walter R. Moore wrote:
> So my question: since I can't use Tacacs, is there a freely available Radius
> server out there?
>

Merit has one, take a look at http://www.merit.edu/aaa/basicsvr.html

        benji

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Yes there is

ftp://ftp.livingston.com/pub/

Look for Radius 1.16 is a FREEWARE version of RADIUS.
Radius 2.0 and 2.0.1 are for Livingston customsers only.
There are other versions (Merit RADIUS and Emerald for NT).

regds;

Felipe

>
> We've just purchased a USR netServer 16. This is a modem pool...
>
> We are very interested in using the password tables from our Sun to handle
> authentication on the netServer for PPP. USR claims its possible through a
> seperate product called Total Control Manager Solaris- this product uses
> RADIUS to talk to the modem server.
>
> So my question: since I can't use Tacacs, is there a freely available Radius
> server out there?
>
> Thanks in advance. You are, collectively, amazing!
> -Walter Moore
> --
> +-------------------------------------------------------------------
> Walter R. Moore - System Administrator
> moorewr@eckerd.edu
> http://www.eckerd.edu/~moorewr
>
>

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