pam_radius(8)

NAME

pam_radius - RADIUS authentication PAM module

SYNOPSIS

[service-name] module-type control-flag pam_radius [options]

DESCRIPTION

The pam_radius module provides authentication services based

upon the
RADIUS (Remote Authentication Dial In User Service) protocol

for the PAM
(Pluggable Authentication Module) framework.

The pam_radius module accepts these optional parameters:

use_first_pass

causes pam_radius to use a previously entered

password
instead of prompting for a new one. If no pass

word has been
entered then authentication fails.

try_first_pass

causes pam_radius to use a previously entered

password, if
one is available. If no password has been en

tered,
pam_radius prompts for one as usual.

echo_pass causes echoing to be left on if pam_radius

prompts for a

password.

conf=pathname

specifies a non-standard location for the RADIUS

client configuration file (normally located in

/etc/radius.conf).

nas_id=identifier

specifies a NAS identifier to send instead of

the hostname.

template_user=username

specifies a user whose passwd(5) entry will be

used as a template to create the session environment if the

supplied username does not exist in local password database.

The user
will be authenticated with the supplied username

and password, but his credentials to the system will be

presented as
the ones for username, i.e., his login class,

home directory,
resource limits, etc. will be set to ones de

fined for
username.

If this option is omitted, and there is no user

name in the
system databases equal to the supplied one (as

determined by
call to getpwnam(3)), the authentication will

fail.

nas_ipaddr[=address]

specifies a NAS IP address to be sent. If op

tion is present,
but there is no value provided then IP address

corresponding
to the current hostname will be used.

FILES

/etc/radius.conf The standard RADIUS client configuration

file for

pam_radius

SEE ALSO

passwd(5), radius.conf(5), pam(8)

HISTORY

The pam_radius module first appeared in FreeBSD 3.1. The

pam_radius manual page first appeared in FreeBSD 3.3.

AUTHORS

The pam_radius manual page was written by Andrzej Bialecki <abial@FreeBSD.org>.

The pam_radius module was written by John D. Polstra

<jdp@FreeBSD.org>.

BSD October 28, 2002

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