10-01-2010
Nice question .I was written in the security manual that all GID must be within range for the distribution.
Quote:
The user “nobody” traditionally got the largest possible UID (as the opposite of the Superuser): 32767. ---Source wikipedia.
Sadly this is not the case in my distribution.
Quote:
cat /etc/passwd | grep nobody
nobody:x:99:99:Nobody:/:/sbin/nologin
However i checked the /usr/include/bits but there is no such directory called bits.
Instead i got it under /usr/include/pppd/pppd.h
Quote:
# grep -i gid /usr/include/pppd/pppd.h
#ifndef GIDSET_TYPE
#define GIDSET_TYPE gid_t
extern GIDSET_TYPE groups[NGROUPS_MAX]; /* groups the user is in */
Quote:
# grep -i gid_t /usr/include/pppd/pppd.h
#define GIDSET_TYPE gid_t
Still not sure if it is int or something else.
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Do you think its int as i got following.
Quote:
#define GIDSET_TYPE gid_t
/usr/include/libsmbclient.h:int smbc_chown(const char *url, uid_t owner, gid_t group);
/usr/include/libdevmapper.h:int dm_task_set_gid(struct dm_task *dmt, gid_t gid);
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pppd-radius
PPPD-RADIUS(8) System Manager's Manual PPPD-RADIUS(8)
NAME
radius.so - RADIUS authentication plugin for pppd(8)
SYNOPSIS
pppd [ options ] plugin radius.so
DESCRIPTION
The RADIUS plugin for pppd permits pppd to perform PAP, CHAP, MS-CHAP and MS-CHAPv2 authentication against a RADIUS server instead of the
usual /etc/ppp/pap-secrets and /etc/ppp/chap-secrets files.
The RADIUS plugin is built on a library called radiusclient which has its own configuration files (usually in /etc/radiusclient), consult
those files for more information on configuring the RADIUS plugin
OPTIONS
The RADIUS plugin introduces one additional pppd option:
radius-config-file filename
The file filename is taken as the radiusclient configuration file. If this option is not used, then the plugin uses
/etc/radiusclient/radiusclient.conf as the configuration file.
avpair attribute=value
Adds an Attribute-Value pair to be passed on to the RADIUS server on each request.
map-to-ifname
Sets Radius NAS-Port attribute to number equal to interface name (Default)
map-to-ttyname
Sets Radius NAS-Port attribute value via libradiusclient library
USAGE
To use the plugin, simply supply the plugin radius.so option to pppd, and edit /etc/radiusclient/radiusclient.conf appropriately. If you
use the RADIUS plugin, the normal pppd authentication schemes (login, checking the /etc/ppp/*-secrets files) are skipped. The RADIUS
server should assign an IP address to the peer using the RADIUS Framed-IP-Address attribute.
SEE ALSO
pppd(8) pppd-radattr(8)
AUTHOR
David F. Skoll <dfs@roaringpenguin.com>
PPPD-RADIUS(8)