# RADIUS: Basics Process Description

- ## When an Authentication Request is received, the RADIUS Server validates the request and then decrypts the data packet to access the user name and password information. This information is passed on to the appropriate security system being supported. This could be a text file, UNIX password files, NIS, LDAP, a commercially available security system or a custom database.

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