Re: (PM) radiusd & nis

Josh Richards (jrichard@livingston.com)
Mon, 13 Jul 1998 15:55:08 -0700 (PDT)

This should be taken to portmaster-radius. Response below.

On 12 Jul 1998, Michael Man Fu Cheng wrote:

> i have been having some problems getting radiusd (both version 1.61 and
> 2.01) to function properly in a couple of NIS servers (FreeBSD & DEC
> Alpha).
>
> users in those servers can login via telnet and ftp but radiusd won't
> authenticate. the exact error looks like these:
>
> Sun Jul 12 21:22:32 1998: [13940] user_find: unable to parse check-items
> for use
> r auj
> Sun Jul 12 21:22:32 1998: [13940] auth: access-request from 209.52.161.2
> (209.52
> .161.2) denied for unknown user auj
> Sun Jul 12 21:22:37 1998: [13903] user_find: unable to parse check-items
> for use
> r auj
> Sun Jul 12 21:22:37 1998: [13903] auth: access-request from 209.52.161.2
> (209.52
> .161.2) denied for unknown user auj
>
> my clients and users files are from a working server with no NIS running
> so i dont think the problem comes from them.

What about the RADIUS dictionary? Are they exactly the same across both
systems? Was the other system running the same version(s) of RADIUS? Can
you show us your users file (minus the passwords)?

-jr

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