Configuring OpenBSD to use RADIUS auth

I have a love-hate relationship with RADIUS. RADIUS is the cheap white glue of authentication. Just about everything speaks it, so you can use it as cheap glue to unify passwords across your gear. But it’s a finicky protocol, with lots of edge cases, and those edges can be SHARP.


Okay, perhaps it’s more of a tolerate-hate relationship. But still.


OpenBSD supports using RADIUS to authenticate user accounts. Why would you possibly want to do this? For one thing, if you’re using authpf, it gives y...

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Published on May 14, 2012 18:35
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