# The Auth Module

Jan
Janak
FhG Fokus
jan@iptel.org
Juha
Heinanen
TutPro Inc
jh@song.fi
Daniel-Constantin
Mierla
asipto.com
miconda@gmail.com
2002
2003
FhG FOKUS

## Admin Guide

### 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 divide 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 users can install and load only the required functionality. This also allows us to avoid unnecessary dependencies in the binary packages.

### Dependencies

The following modules must be loaded before this module:

- sl - stateless reply.