FreeRADIUS Beginner's Guide

Chapter 5. Sources of Usernames and Passwords

In the chapters up to now user details were kept in the users file. The contents of this file were then used by FreeRADIUS to validate credentials during the authentication process. FreeRADIUS will most likely be part of an enterprise setup with existing users already created somewhere else. This chapter will look at ways to utilize existing user stores.

In this chapter we shall:

• Look at user store options
• Use Linux system users as a user store for FreeRADIUS
• Use MySQL as a user store for FreeRADIUS
• Use LDAP as a user store for FreeRADIUS
• Use Microsoft Active Directory as a user store for FreeRADIUS

So let's get on with it...

User stores

A user store is a place where user details are kept. It is ideal to have ...