Re: Simple RADIUS Setup (fwd)

Mike Gogulski (syadasti@seminole.iag.net)
Tue, 19 Dec 1995 17:56:18 -0500 (EST)

Matt Zimmerman wrote:
>
> > Is RADIUS required to be a Root or plain user-level on the server?
>
> Since radius works on port 1645/udp, and accounting on 1646/udp, the
> RADIUS server must run as root (to listen on these (low) ports).

On most unix machines, low ports are numbered below 1024.

I'm running radiusd and authenticating users successfully using a non-root
userid.

Peace,
Mike

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