Re: Setting Up Merit Radius

William Bulley (web@merit.edu)
Tue, 9 Apr 1996 16:18:30 -0400 (EDT)

According to igoldste@mum.neric.org:
>
> I've compiled the Merit version of Radius and rradcheck seems to be ok:
>
> auth queue: 1/0, acct queue: 0/0, maxtime: 0 (Tue Apr 9 15:24:30 1996)
> authfile: 0, clients: 4, users: 4, fsm: 5, Tue Apr 9 15:24:30 1996
> Version 2.4.21 NOSHADOW aix M_UNIX
>
> "mum(1645)" is responding
>
> but when I try to test it with radpwtst I get:
> "testuser" authentication failed(RC=1): No reply from RADIUS server
> "mum.neric.org(1645)"
>
> I've tried this without an authfile, with just a "NULL UNIX-PW" line in
> the authfile and with the realm in the authfile set as:
> neric.org UNIX-PW
> DEFAULT RADIUS mum.neric.org
> NULL UNIX-PW
>
> The logfile shows:
> Tue Apr 9 15:43:23 1996: config_files: ./clients (4 entries) read to memory
> Tue Apr 9 15:43:23 1996: read_users: ./users (4 entries) read to memory
> Tue Apr 9 15:43:23 1996: read_auth: ./authfile (3 entries) read to memory
> Tue Apr 9 15:44:03 1996: rad_authenticate: 170/0 'testuser' at
> mum.neric.org PPP
> Tue Apr 9 15:44:03 1996: rad_authenticate: 170/0 'testuser' at
> mum.neric.org PPP

Is one machine or two? If two, is shared secret? Don't need authfile
at all if not using realms (must exist, but could be empty). If NULL
realm is okay, don't need three entries, just "NULL UNIX-PW" is all.

If one, may need "-d" option on radpwtst (so as to get secret with self).

Regards,

web...

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