GNU Radius Reference Manual  Sergey Poznyakoff
1-882114-69-8padFree Software Foundation 9781882114696 1882114698Nov-03
List Price: $25.00padPaperbackpad174 pages
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Master all the customizable features that make GNU Radius great! Design your own authentication and accounting tables with no restrictions. Communicate with MySQL, PostgreSQL, ODBC and non-standard Radius servers. Choose your authentication scheme from the many options available. Use on a single server or run a whole ISP. This manual only assumes basic UNIX-like system and networking knowledge, and no previous knowledge of the Radius protocol.

GNU Radius is a server program for remote user authentication and accounting. It is useful in a wide variety of applications from dial-up user services to voice-over IP systems. Designed to handle ISP workloads, it can be scaled for any network that needs a centralized authentication and/or accounting service for its workstations. Use the built-in extension language to write your own special-case rules for parsing and restructuring non-standard terminal server packets. GNU Radius is highly extensible and can be easily adapted to your system's needs.

Several built-in accounting methods:

  • SQL accounting
  • Unix accounting
  • Plain text detailed accounting
  • Or create your own accounting method with your choice of the two built-in extension languages!

    A wide variety of authentication methods:

  • User supplied authentication data via answering terminal server login/password prompts
  • PAP or CHAP protocols
  • System or internal database storage of user's personal data
  • SQL or PAM authentication

    GNU Radius allows any authentication and accounting table structure, and the system administrator designs Radius's queries used to store and retrieve records. Perfect for creating non-English user interfaces.

    About the book:

    The manual will allow a novice user to master the GNU Radius system. It assumes the reader has basic knowledge about UNIX-like systems and general networking. No knowledge of the Radius protocol is assumed.