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

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.

The module does not depend on any other module.