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RADIUS
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RADIUS

by Jonathan Hassell
October 2002
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
206 pages
8h 30m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Configuring FreeRADIUS to Use LDAP

To instruct FreeRADIUS to use the LDAP protocol instead of PAM or another local user authentication database, you need to install the OpenLDAP product. As of this writing, the latest version of OpenLDAP is 2.0.23. To install OpenLDAP on your system, perform the following steps:

  1. Download the product, preferably in .tar.gz form, from the OpenLDAP web site at http://www.openldap.org/software/download/.

  2. Decompress the program with the following command:

    tar xzf openldap-stable-20010524.tar.gz
  3. Change to the directory where the uncompressed files are and configure the program by executing the following:

    cd openldap-2.0.11
    ./configure -sysconfdir=/etc --enable-slapd=no -enable-slurpd=no --with-
    threads=no
  4. Make the program’s binaries with the following commands:

    make depend
    make
    make install
    cd ..

Now install FreeRADIUS with Version 0.6 or later. The latest information and updates to the FreeRADIUS product, ...

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