[plug] Learning/setting up RADIUS

[ryan at is.as.geeky.as]

> I see you're missing freeradius (www.freeradius.org).  It's pretty good.
> It's still a little unstable, and the build process is volotile BUT
> it has lots of features is GPL.  You can authenicate from a database
> return radius attributes from a database and use a db for accoutning.

Thanks for that,

I wasn't expecting the President of marketing to reply!  >:P

I got radiusd-cistron, had a bit of a read and got it authenticating between
two machines as I had expected using plain text as well as system password
(databases will come later).

I'm as yet unsure why there are so many different implementations of RADIUS
server, but they all seem to use the same config files and respond the same
on a test basis.  I'll get the Cisco dude to give it a try and we'll see how
it goes.

Cistron seemed to have much better commented files to learn from than the
others - lucky I stumbled across it as I was staring at blank config files
with some of the other ones :)

Ryan