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portslave(8)							     Portslave							      portslave(8)

NAME
portslave - terminal server program. SYNOPSIS
portslave [+config-file] port|- DESCRIPTION
This manual page documents briefly the portslave, program. This program is a getty replacement that will run it's own version of pppd, the user can specify their user-name via a login: prompt or PPP PAP negotiation. After the username and password have been supplied the user will be authenticated by the RADIUS protocol. OPTIONS
An optional first parameter is '+config-file' to specify an alternate config file. The default is /etc/portslave/pslave.conf . The next parameter is either the port number or '-'. The value '-' means that portslave is to use it's controlling tty as the serial device and inspect the config file to find the RADIUS port number which matches that. This was originally written for telnetd support (telnetd puts a '-' as the first command line parameter) but can be used for other things. To run over the telnet protocol put a config entry similar to the following in your inetd configuration: telnet stream tcp nowait root /usr/sbin/tcpd /usr/sbin/in.telnetd -L /usr/sbin/portslave Then in the pslave.conf file put a series of entries specifying every pseudo-tty device (either ptyp0, ptyp1, etc or pts/1, pts/2 etc depending on which type of device naming you use). For the RADIUS port numbers which are to be used for telnet connections you must spec- ify the initchat as an empty string. If you want to run portslave over a clean TCP connection (no telnet protocol) then put the following in your inetd configuration: telnet stream tcp nowait root /usr/sbin/tcpd /usr/sbin/portslave - AUTHOR
This man page was written by Russell Coker <russell@coker.com.au>. May be freely used and distributed without restriction. SEE ALSO
pslave.conf(5), pppd(8), ctlportslave(1) http://doc.coker.com.au/projects/portslave/ Russell Coker <;russell@coker.com.au> 2010.03.30 portslave(8)

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RADIUS(8)						    InterNetNews Documentation							 RADIUS(8)

NAME
radius - nnrpd RADIUS password authenticator SYNOPSIS
radius [-h] [-f config] DESCRIPTION
radius is an nnrpd authenticator, accepting a username and password from nnrpd (given to nnrpd by a reader connection) and attempting to authenticate that username and password against a RADIUS server. See readers.conf(5) for more information on how to configure an nnrpd authenticator. It is useful for a site that already does user authentication via RADIUS and wants to authenticate news reading connections as well. By default, radius reads pathetc/radius.conf for configuration information, but a different configuration file can be specified with -f. See radius.conf(5) for a description of the configuration file. OPTIONS
-f config Read config instead of pathetc/radius.conf for configuration information. -h Print out a usage message and exit. EXAMPLE
The following readers.conf(5) fragment tells nnrpd to authenticate all connections using this authenticator: auth radius { auth: radius default: <FAIL> default-domain: example.com } "@example.com" will be appended to the user-supplied identity, and if RADIUS authentication failes, the user will be assigned an identity of "<FAIL>@example.com". BUGS
It has been reported that this authenticator doesn't work with Ascend RADIUS servers, but does work with Cistron RADIUS servers. It's also believed to work with Livingston's RADIUS server. Contributions to make it work better with different types of RADIUS servers would be gratefully accepted. This code has not been audited against the RADIUS protocol and may not implement it correctly. HISTORY
The RADIUS authenticator was originally written by Aidan Cully. This documentation was written by Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu>. $Id: radius.pod 7664 2007-09-02 12:58:07Z iulius $ SEE ALSO
nnrpd(8), radius.conf(5), readers.conf(5) RFC 2865, Remote Authentication Dial In User Service. INN 2.5.3 2009-05-21 RADIUS(8)
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