RE: [cobalt-users] Postgres on Raq3's and Changes

["Andy Brown" <andy.brown@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Currently we are providing hosting services on multiple Raq3 
> servers w/ a T1 backbone and are now adding dialup services 
> to the mix.  As of now, each Raq is authenticating to it's 
> own local Postgres user database and we would like to set 
> things up so all dialup users and Raq users will authenticate 
> to a central Radius server which will in turn be using a 
> central Postgres database.  Is this capable of being done? 
> Will this work for the Raq's, without breaking the gui and if 
> is possible, how much repointing of the Raq's system must be 
> done? Is there any available/recommended software for 
> providing a nice front end to all this?


Hi David,

I think what you want can be done because the RaQ's implement PAM.
Take a look in /etc/pam.d and in the passwd, login, etc files and I
think you should be able to add in the required module for
authenticating remotely to a radius, although you might need to do some
digging to find the right shared object (.so) file to do this.

I've done this with success on a Qube3, but I used the existing win2k/nt
domain authentication on the network, but in essence it's the same
thing.

Hope that points you along the right lines, if it goes correctly it
shouldn't disturb the gui, etc since Apache on the RaQ's is build with
pam built-in, so it should just use pam if you configure it.

Regards,

Andy
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