Re: [Emerald] Proxy Prefixing

Dale E. Reed Jr. ( (no email) )
Thu, 23 Mar 2000 09:29:40 -0800

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"David V. Brenner" wrote:
>
> Will (or does) Radius 3.0 support proxy prefixes as well as suffixes
> (domains)?
>
> For instance, a RaduisNT server gets a request to authenticate the user
> ISP\user@domain.com. It recognizes the prefix of ISP as belonging to some
> proxy server that is itself a pass-thru for some other proxy servers. The
> first server (RasdiusNT 3.0) strips the prefix (ISP\), leaving only
> user@domain.com. The second server gets the request and recognizes
> domain.com as a domain (or perhaps many) that it can proxy a request to.
> The third server authenticates by user name only, so the second server
> strips the domain.com portion of the user name before sending it down the
> line. Finally, the third server gets the request and authenticates the
> user.

A single server can't do both at the same time. It can handle one
or the other on a per-user basis, and I think the pre-fix takes
precedence over the suffix.

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