If you are talking about people logging into an NT system, it offers
nothing. Radius is a protocol designed by Livingston Enterprises to
enable remote user authentication from their Portmaster range of remote
access servers.
It has since been adopted as a standard by most remote access server
manufacturers, and in a nutshell it enables system administrators
(mainly ISP's but not necessarily) the ability to maintain a single
database for their dial-in users even if they have multiple dial-in
servers.
RadiusNT is simply a port of the original Livingston Radius server (with
an awful lot of additions/improvements by Dale et al, in fact it
probably qualifies as a re-write by now !!) onto Windows NT from it's
native Unix.
Cheers
Phil Taylor
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> From: Brian Johnson[SMTP:Brian.Johnson@lhsc.on.ca]
> Reply To: RadiusNT@emerald.iea.com
> Sent: Friday, May 23, 1997 2:48 PM
> To: radiusnt@iea.com
> Subject: Why radius
>
> I've read the FAQ however I'm still confused what Radius offers for
> authentication over the traditional password?
>
> Brian Johnson
> Security - Information Services
> London Health Sciences Centre
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> London Ontatio, Canada
> 519-586-8300 x7408
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