[Serusers] SER, Radius and /etc/passwd

[Jiri Kuthan]

At 08:05 AM 7/18/2004, Steve Fraser wrote:
>Hi All,
>
>I'm trying to implement SER into an existing system, and having problems
>with radius authentication. RTFM and lots of google hasnt helped!
>
>The existing working freeradius server uses Unix (/etc/passwd) file (on
>FreeBSD) to authenticate users who dial into a modem server. I'd like to use
>the same accounts and passwords for SIP users, using the same radius server.

That's not going to work.
http://iptel.org/cgi-bin/fom?file=116

You need to have cleartext password on the server side someway to deal with
SIP's MD5/digest.

-jiri