DHCP Authentication method?

DHCP Authentication method?

Shachar Shemesh shachar at shemesh.biz
Fri Jul 30 22:42:16 IDT 2010


Hetz Ben Hamo wrote:
> Hi,
> I'm looking to test a very simple DHCP authentication, to allow a user 
> to get a dynamic IP.
> In order to authenticate the user, the user will need to type a number 
> which will be compared to a number stored in a flat text file. If he 
> will write the correct number, he'll get a full web access. If not, 
> "wrong number". the authentication won't let the user do any ssh to 
> the machine, just web browsing.
>
> I thought doing it with PAM, iptables and NoCatAuth, but it seems that 
> NoCatAuth is outdated (it doesn't have any updates since 2004).
>
> Does anyone has any recommendation for any way to use it? I don't want 
> to use MySQL, LDAP - it's an overkill solution for something that 
> should be simple..
What does any of the above have to do with DHCP?

Shachar

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Lingnu Open Source Consulting Ltd.
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