RE: [SLUG] RADIUS SERVER FOR A DIAL-IN

[Rodos <rodos@nospam.haywood.org>]

On Thu, 8 Jun 2000, Adrian wrote:

> I have with a bit of help been able to dial-in to my server, but only
> getting shell access.

Great, you are most of the way there.
 
> Would I be better to swap to RADIUS and PORTSLAVE or try to get PPP access
> on the now existing dial-in service.

Forget radius and all that junk, you just need PPP.

> Please remember that I am still an infant with regards to Linux(Redhat
> v6.2), so please be patient and give details on how to make changes.
> Explanation as to why things are done a particular way would also be good.

First go and read the "Setting up a PPP server" part of the Linux 
PPP-HOWTO at
http://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/LDP/HOWTO/PPP-HOWTO-26.html

You basically setup your PPP options files as described. Here are mine
/etc/ppp/options
-detach

etc/ppp/options.ttyS0
203.26.8.22:203.26.8.25
debug
proxyarp

I then set the shell in /etc/passwd to /usr/sbin/pppd so that once they
authenticate (login: password:) PPP starts automatically and you can start
PPP on the client end.

If you don't have any routable static address you might have to setup
masquerading and hand out one of your masqueraded addresses. 

Read the HOWTO and then ask here for any further help.

Rodos

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