[Serusers] Radius/Kerberos pam/digest

Jan Janak jan at iptel.org
Fri Nov 21 21:42:14 CET 2003


On 21-11 15:39, Victor Palacio wrote:
> I've been reading that recently that SER does not yet have any support 
> for a PAM module.

  No, there is no support for PAM.

> Since their aren't any PAM modules, can SER send plain-text passwords 
> to a Radius server? That way we can use PAM on our Radius server to 
> authenticate and lookup accounts on servers running  Kerberos and LDAP?

  No. SIP uses digest authentication, that means ser receives digest
  credentials and sends them to radius server for verification. The
  radius server returns Valid/Invalid.

> Or does SER forward credentials (digested or hashed) that it receives 
> from a sip-client (say from a Cisco 7960)?

  Yes.

   Jan.




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