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Re: Radius authentication via PAM?


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Reini Urban wrote:
> Wouter Backx schrieb:
> 
>> for accomplishing Radius authentication on an OpenSSH server (like
>> COPssh) I'd like to set up RADIUS authentication on Cywin for
>> One-Time-Passowds from hardware tokens verified by a RADIUS server.
>> We have been investigation for using PAM, but there is very little
>> information on PAM with Cygwin on the net. For PAM there are pluggins
>> available for RADIUS authentication, but it seems to be for other
>> software/unix flavours.
>> If PAM is the way forward, are there any "to the point" resources
>> available for doing RADIUS authentication on CYGWIN?
> 
> 
> There's no such thing as PAM for cygwin. PAM is for linux only.
> Authentication on cygwin is done via Windows Authentication.

Yes, there is no PAM for Cygwin.

No, PAM is not only for Linux (who gave you that idea?).

And there is PAM for Windows.  I came across this when investigating if I sould
use OpenLDAP to authenticate everybody in an heterogeneous network.  Look for
instance to http://pgina.xpasystems.com/ which may be what the OP was looking for.

HTH
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René Berber
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