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FreeRADIUS Beginner's Guide

You're reading from   FreeRADIUS Beginner's Guide Master authentication, authorization, and accessing your network resources using FreeRADIUS

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2011
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781849514088
Length 344 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (16) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Introduction to AAA and RADIUS FREE CHAPTER 2. Installation 3. Getting Started with FreeRADIUS 4. Authentication 5. Sources of Usernames and Passwords 6. Accounting 7. Authorization 8. Virtual Servers 9. Modules 10. EAP 11. Dictionaries 12. Roaming and Proxying 13. Troubleshooting A. Pop Quiz Answers Index

Time for action – creating a virtual server for the Computer Science faculty

Isaac discovered that the Computer Science faculty practices security by obscurity. Its RADIUS server uses port 2812 for authentication and 2813 for accounting. It has a users file that contains the entire details of the users. The RADIUS clients only send authentication requests to the RADIUS server. The following table lists important information:

Information item

Detail

User store

users file

Authentication port

2812

Accounting port (unused)

2813

Computer Science RADIUS server IP Address

10.10.0.100

RADIUS client IP Address (authentication only)

10.10.0.200

Consolidation implementation

From of the information Isaac gathered we can do the following:

  • Create a named files section to take care of the users file
  • Create a virtual server with local listen and client sections
  • Incorporate this new virtual server

Let's tackle these!

A named files section

Module-specific configurations are done through files...

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