radiusd_bsdauth(8)

radiusd_bsdauth8

Provide authentication by bsd authentication system

Usage

radiusd_bsdauth

Overview

The radiusd_bsdauth utility is executed by radiusd(8) as a module to provide authentication from the local system's authenticate(3) interface, known as “bsd auth”. It only supports PAP, password based authentication.

Configurations

The radiusd_bsdauth supports the following configuration key and value:

restrict-group group ...

Restrict login only if the user is a member of the specified groups.

Files

/usr/libexec/radiusd/radiusd_bsdauth

“bsdauth” module executable.

Releases

Unchanged in 6 releases since OpenBSD 7.6.

  1. 7.6–8.0

History

The radiusd_bsdauth module first appeared in OpenBSD 5.8.

From man 8.0-current-20261101 in OpenBSD 8.0-current (2026-11-01). Parsed by carta from the page's mdoc source.