Cistron RADIUS server, version 1.5.4.3-beta16
Introduction
We have a RADIUS server with a lot of functions available on our
FTP server. I'll describe it later in detail as soon as I have some time
for that.
Short overview:
- It's free (under the GNU GPL license)
- Supports access based on huntgroups
- Multiple DEFAULT entries in users file
- All users file entries can optionally "fall through"
- Caches all config files in-memory
- Keeps a list of logged in users (radutmp file)
- "radwho" program can be installed as "fingerd"
- Logs both UNIX "wtmp" file format and RADIUS detail logfiles
- Supports Simultaneous-Use = X parameter. Yes, this means that
you can now prevent double logins!
- Supports Vendor-Specific attributes, including USRs non-standard ones.
- Supports proxying
- Supports the "Alive" packet
Some documentation:
Where to get it
The file name is radiusd-cistron-1.5.4.3-beta16.tar.gz and you can find it
on our FTP server
Patches
Also, people have sent me patches. Some of these I'll integrate, some
I won't because I don't like them or I want to do it differently, but
there's a collection of them on the unofficial
cistron-radius patches page.
Precompiled
There aren't much precompiled versions of radius available at the moment.
As soon as 1.5.4.3 is stable, there will probably be a Debian/Linux
package for it, but not for the beta's.
Mauricio Andrade has RPM
packages for Cistron Radius available at
ftp://ftp.mma.com.br/pub/cistron-radius-RPMS
Mailing list
There is a mailing list for radiusd-cistron. Send email to
cistron-radius-request@info.cistron.nl with
in the body:
subscribe cistron-radius
The list is closed, only people subscribed to the list can post to it.
That also means that you need to subscribe with the address that
you intend to use to post to the list, otherwise your postings won't
show up!
There is
an archive of the list available on the web.
I also used to maintain portslave , terminal
server software for Linux. The last version I released was 1.16, now
Eric Green <longshot@internet-connections.net> is working on an
1.2 release. The guys from the Linux Router Project are also working on
portslave; it seems it has now gone in two directions. You
decide which one is best.
Here is the Eric Green portslave homepage
Here is the Linux Router Project portslave homepage
miquels@cistron.nl