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From: tsnell@enteract.com (Tracy J. Snell)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Compiling RADIUS under FreeBSD
Date: Mon, 08 Jan 1996 21:45:02 GMT
Organization: EnterAct, L.L.C.
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nuggets@bluesprings.in-brb.de (Lars Hentschke) wrote:

>Doug Lerner (doug@gol.com) wrote:
>: Somebody wrote a message a while back about what they needed to modify 
>: in the Makefile for RADIUS in order to compile it. I searched for that 
>: message, but could not find it. 

>I read something about RADIUS in several newsgroups, but: what is this?

It is an authentification server. In our case when a user connects to
our Liviningston it uses Radius running on our FreeBSD box to
authenticate the user.

>It seems to be big, difficult and very important. :)

Not big at all. Not all that difficult either. Adding -lcrypt compiles
it. And it has been quite easy to patch here for additional features.

-- 
Tracy Snell
EnterAct, L.L.C.
tjs@enteract.com