RADIUS (Merit) setup problem...

Craig A. Heilman (craigh@msn.fullfeed.com)
Thu, 9 Nov 1995 22:01:45 -0600

Hi all,

I just installed the radius 2.4.14 release from Merit per the INSTALL
document. I've temporarily started radiusd listening on port 1647 for
testing. Like so: #radiusd -p 1647 -q 1648 -d /usr/private/etc/raddb -x &

I have a single line in the clients file like this (mendota is the host):
mendota.terracom.net dumbsecret

I got rid of the authfile (copied it to authfile.ori).

I used the default users file except that I commented out the realm stuff
and put this for my "default" entry:

DEFAULT Authentication-Type = Unix-PW
User-Service-Type = Framed-User,
Framed-Protocol = PPP,
Filter-Id = "unlim",
Framed-Address = 255.255.255.254,
Framed-MTU = 1500,
Framed-Compression = Van-Jacobsen-TCP-IP

I left the three "canonical" entries (dumbuser, pppuser, slipuser) at the
end of the file.

I then ran "radcheck -p 1647 -r 1 mendota" and it says mendota is responding.

Then I attempt to run radpwtst as follows and it fails.
# radpwtst -p 1647 -s mendota -r 1 -u ppp -x craigh
Password:
Received attribute/value pair(s):
Reply-Message = "Authentication failure\015\012"
"craigh" authentication failed: Authentication failure

Any ideas what's happening here? I have a feeling it's something to do
with the users file but what? (Yes I did remember to HUP radiusd after
every change to the users file).

Thanks,

Craig

P.S. I'm far from being a Unix wizard so if I'm doing something really
stupid, please keep your flamethrowers on low ;-).

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