[Asterisk-Users] Re: * with RADIUS

[Andrew Kohlsmith]

> Explain why you think you really need RADIUS Accounting?   Why not talk
> right to the database itself and save yourself that unneeded
> complication and points of failure.

For the exact same reasons RADIUS exists in the first place?  Consistency?  
The ability to change authentication backends without having to touch *?  
Passing off authentication to a third party?

I wonder if Brian is going to make a unixodbc_radius...  :-)

Regards,
Andrew