Radius Modules in NMAS and BMAS
Articles and Tips: qna
01 Feb 2003
Q.
Since my company uses both Novell Modular Authentication Services (NMAS) and Novell BorderManager Authentication Services (BMAS), are the Radius modules, common to each, interchangeable?
Changing in Cauca
A.
Dear Changing: Unfortunately the NLMs from these two product lines are not interchangeable. The RADIUS.NLM from NMAS won't work with BMAS because it uses BAUTHPXY.NLM and NMAS.NLM for authentication. It also stores the encrypted data using NMAS, rather than performing the encryption itself. This BAUTHPXY.NLM cannot read encrypted data stored using BMAS, and BMAS cannot read encrypted data stored by this NLM. (RADMIG.NLM can be used to migrate this information for those who are upgrading.)
Also, we can't use the v3.7 modules on v3.6 (or vice-versa) because of the differences in licensing. All versions of the NMAS RADIUS modules are interchangeable with other versions of NMAS. Therefore, when downloading a patch for RADIUS, be sure that you check the readme for the versions of RADIUS for which the patch was created.
* Originally published in Novell AppNotes
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