Jan
Janak
FhG Fokus
jan@iptel.org
Juha
Heinanen
Song Networks
jh@song.fi
2002
2003
FhG FOKUS
$Revision: 1.3 $
$Date: 2005/08/24 22:26:17 $

# Auth Module

## Overview

This is a generic module that itself doesn't provide all functions necessary for authentication but provides functions that are needed by all other authentication related modules (so called authentication backends).

We decided to break the authentication code into several modules because there are now more than one backends (currently database authentication and radius are supported). This allows us to create separate packages so uses can install and load only required functionality. This also allows us to avoid unnecessary dependencies in the binary packages.

## Dependencies

The module depends on the following modules (in the other words the listed modules must be loaded before this module):

- ### sl

  The modules needs sl module to send stateless replies.