From 87791f7538cfe3e138acb6528157b41e3f1872b0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Martin Willi Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2011 11:25:25 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Added description for the xauth-eap plugin --- src/libcharon/plugins/xauth_eap/xauth_eap.h | 10 ++++++++-- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/src/libcharon/plugins/xauth_eap/xauth_eap.h b/src/libcharon/plugins/xauth_eap/xauth_eap.h index 655e057e7..70927247e 100644 --- a/src/libcharon/plugins/xauth_eap/xauth_eap.h +++ b/src/libcharon/plugins/xauth_eap/xauth_eap.h @@ -26,7 +26,13 @@ typedef struct xauth_eap_t xauth_eap_t; #include /** - * XAuth methods that verifies XAuth credentials using EAP methods. + * XAuth method that verifies XAuth credentials using EAP methods. + * + * To reuse existing authentication infrastructure, this XAuth method uses + * EAP to verify XAuth Username/Passwords. It is primarily designed to work + * with the EAP-RADIUS backend and can use any password-based EAP method + * over it. The credentials are fed locally on the IKE responder to a EAP + * client which talks to the backend instance, usually a RADIUS server. */ struct xauth_eap_t { @@ -46,4 +52,4 @@ struct xauth_eap_t { xauth_eap_t *xauth_eap_create_server(identification_t *server, identification_t *peer); -#endif /** xauth_eap_H_ @}*/ +#endif /** XAUTH_EAP_H_ @}*/