RADIUS authentication

Michael Sweet mike at easysw.com
Thu Jun 8 07:58:10 PDT 2006


John A. Murdie wrote:
> The networking support people at my site are considering the use of
> the RADIUS protocol in user authentication for access to services.
> Will CUPS support this? (Assuming that support is necessary.) Does
> anyone use RADIUS to secure access to CUPS? (I can't find mention of
> RADIUS in the forums here, by general search here, or in the FAQs
> search.)

CUPS doesn't support RADIUS authentication directly; I know the
FreeRADIUS software provides a PAM module you can use, however you'll
want to enable encryption to prevent the usernames and passwords from
being disclosed...

(This is the default in CUPS 1.2...)

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