[CentOS] RADIUS

Wed Feb 14 17:59:36 UTC 2018
Javier Romero <xavinux at gmail.com>

Hi,

Radius is a AAA protocol (Authorization, Aurhentication and Accounting) you
can use rhe three methods or only one of them.

Authentication can be done by usong a Freeradius Server, aitvorization will
give a userr profile with certain privileges for example In a network
connection, and accounting (user connection details) can be registered In a
MySQL database if needed.

Check for guodes con how to install and use Freeradiua on CentOS.

Regards,



El miércoles, 14 de febrero de 2018, hw <hw at gc-24.de> escribió:

>
> Hi,
>
> I´m trying to figure out how to practically use RADIUS to authenticate
> users.
>
> So far, I have only found documentation explaining that the idea is that
> users somehow magically need to authenticate against a RADIUS server via
> a device like a switch or a wireless access point before they are given or
> being denied access to a network.  I understand that I have to refer to
> the documentation of the switch or access point to figure out how to set
> up RADIUS authentication with the particular device.
>
> But how is this achieved in practice?  Let´s say I have a couple laptops
> and
> a couple phones and a couple computers which connect either to a switch or
> to
> a wireless access point.  Both the switch and the access point support
> RADIUS,
> and I would set them up to talk to the RADIUS server and require every
> device
> that wants to connect to the network through them to authenticate first.
> I also
> have a couple thin clients and a couple computers which use PXE-boot, and
> the
> users of those would have to provide authentication before the machines
> could
> even boot.
>
> Then what?  How do I make it so that the users are actually able to
> authenticate?
>
> Is there any documentation about this?  Or am I not supposed to use RADIUS
> but
> something else?
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