[kwlug-disc] Radius

[Hubert Chathi]

On Fri, 09 Sep 2016 00:40:36 -0400, "B.S." <bs27975.2 at gmail.com> said:

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> IIRC, Radius can essentially be scripted, so the above might only be
> valid between the hours of 8am and 5pm, and IIRC Radius can also feed
> logs. x Granted access to y, logging and controlling in ways the
> original box might not have been able to. There can be some advantage
> to having a central replicated authentication and access logging agent
> box rather than having to maintain credentials on multiple boxes.

I already have central authentication via LDAP, but the scriptability
seems like an interesting feature.  Thanks for the information.

Hubert