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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  authenti-
     cate  that  username  and	password  against  a  RADIUS  server.  See read-
     ers.conf(5) for more information on how to configure an  nnrpd  authentica-
     tor.  It is useful for a site that already does user authentication via RA-
     DIUS and wants to authenticate news reading connections as well.

     By default, radius reads pathetc/inn-radius.conf for configuration informa-
     tion,  but  a  different  configuration file can be specified with -f.  See
     inn-radius.conf(5) for a description of the configuration file.

OPTIONS
     -f config
	 Read config instead of pathetc/inn-radius.conf for configuration infor-
	 mation.

     -h  Print out a usage message and exit.

EXAMPLE
     The following readers.conf(5) fragment tells nnrpd to authenticate all con-
     nections 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  RA-
     DIUS  authentication  fails,  the	user  will  be	assigned  an identity of
     "<FAIL>@example.com".

BUGS
     It has been reported that this authenticator doesn't work with  Ascend  RA-
     DIUS  servers,  but  does	work with Cistron RADIUS servers.  It's also be-
     lieved to work with Livingston's RADIUS server.  Contributions to	make  it
     work  better with different types of RADIUS servers would be gratefully ac-
     cepted.

     This code has not been audited against the RADIUS protocol and may not  im-
     plement it correctly.

HISTORY
     The RADIUS authenticator was originally written by Aidan Cully.  This docu-
     mentation was written by Russ Allbery <eagle@eyrie.org>.

SEE ALSO
     inn-radius.conf(5), nnrpd(8), readers.conf(5).

INN 2.8.0			   2021-09-13			       RADIUS(8)

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