PHP Radius or radtest simple radius authinication

Question

I'm currently shelling out to the radtest command line tool for authenticating users against a radius server:

$response = exec("radtest $user $pass $server $port $secret | grep Access-Accept")

if($response!= "") {
  echo "access granted";
}

Is there a more integrated approach, perhaps utilising a class or other such component in PHP for this, that might be more efficient or secure (somebody could replace the radtest executable with one that collects the credentials)?

Answer 1

Have you tried the Auth_Radius PEAR package class?

It looks like it might be the simplest integrated solution for authenticating against a Radius server. It may require you to install the PECL radius package , you might have better luck installing it than me!