Configuring Radius Authentication on Linux

1. Install libpam-radius-auth
   sudo apt-get install libpam-radius-auth
2. Configure libpam-radius-auth with your radius servers and secrets
   sudo pico /etc/pam_radius_auth.conf
3. Set permissions on /etc/pam_radius_auth.conf
   sudo chmod 0600 /etc/pam_radius_auth.conf
4. Add auth sufficient pam_radius_auth.so to /etc/pam.d/login and then the following as desired just above the line reading @include common-auth
   /etc/pam.d/sshd<br /> /etc/pam.d/sudo<br /> /etc/pam.d/su
5. Add try_first_pass to auth line in /etc/pam.d/common-auth
   auth [success=1 default=ignore] pam_unix.so nullok_secure try_first_pass
6. Make user locally with disabled password
   sudo useradd -m USERNAME
   or to add a user and add to the sudo group
   sudo useradd -m -G sudo USERNAME

Ta Da!

The one caveat that I’ve found with this is that when logging in with local users to the local console you are prompted for a password twice, this is fixed via step 5 but note that if you run pam-auth-update this change will be overwritten.