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==== Radius authentication server ====
# Radius authentication server #
A [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RADIUS|Radius]] authentication server uses a very simple protocol with the clients; 4 types of messages are used for the authentication and authorisation process:
* **Access-Request**
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The first tests were done with the **radtest** freeradius client over IP and IPv6.
As the idp is written in Java, we had to test a Java client; **[[http://tinyradius.sourceforge.net/|TinyRadius, a Java Radius library]]** provides what is needed for a client to authenticate a user on a radius server. A crude run of the provided **TestClient** Java program and some tcpdump network traces can be found in the [radius-otp.pdf document](uploads/3eb417258a304e9ffb4ca61961aef9bc/radius-otp.pdf). The TinyRadius library doesn't work over IPv6 :-(
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As the idp is written in Java, we had to test a Java client; **[[http://tinyradius.sourceforge.net/|TinyRadius, a Java Radius library]]** provides what is needed for a client to authenticate a user on a radius server. A crude run of the provided **TestClient** Java program and some tcpdump network traces can be found in the [radius-otp.pdf document](uploads/3eb417258a304e9ffb4ca61961aef9bc/radius-otp.pdf). The TinyRadius library doesn't work over IPv6 :-(