Re: Radius 2.0 and Linux 2.0.30

Ed Manaman (edl@rock.spectra.net)
Tue, 29 Apr 1997 12:47:47 -0400 (EDT)

I wonder if the ComOs of the Livingston Box makes a difference?

What is the url for radius 2.0 download?

Ed

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On Tue, 29 Apr 1997, Gary wrote:

> I'm not running buiddbm or using shadow passwords. Authentication failures
> (as far as I know) did not happen with Radius 1.16. You can get the source
> from the Livingston site, just make sure you have a serial number from a
> Livingston product handy. Here's an excerpt from my dealings with
> Livingston support:
>
> ---- Start of excerpt ---------------------------------------
>
> On Thu, 24 Apr 1997, Theo Van Dyne wrote:
> > Run your make file from /usr/local/linux/ directory instead.
>
> OK. I got a brand new tar of the Radius source. I untarred it ( the source
> I was using before was messed up) and went to the Linux directory. Looking
> at the makefile I'm not sure why you told me to make from
> /usr/local/linux. It seems to be OK anywhere as long as you keep the
> directory structure from the tar file intact. Anyway I went to the Linux
> directory and typed "make". This is what I got:
>
> make: *** No rule to make target `../radius/src/sdacmvls.h', needed by
> `radiusd'. Stop.
>
> This makes sense really because although there is a ../radius/src
> directory, there is no file called sdacmvls.h.
>
> I'm still not sure if I have to re-compile my radiusd in the first place.
> We had another authentication failure last night, again with no funny
> messages in /var/log/syslog, /var/log/messages, or anywhere in /etc/raddb.
> I'm going to run radiusd -x tonight, hopefully (ha ha) we will have
> another failure. I'm not quite sure what's the proper way to redirect
> radiusd -x's output to a file. You might want to mention that in the next
> Radius Administrator's manual. To answer your earlier questions, yes I did
> the Troubleshooting in Appendix A. Oh yeah, thanks for the help so far!
>
> ------- End of Excerpt -------------------------------------------
>
> This Radius problem is EXTREMELY frustrating, because it's been so rock
> solid before. Also I've compiled tons of code before, but I don't know why
> I can't compile this little Radius program!
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> On Tue, 29 Apr 1997, Ed Manaman wrote:
> > Interesting. So hopefully we are not doing something wrong. Some more
> > details, if they are of interest is,
> >
> > We don't use builddbm
> > 1.6 runs just fine
> > I also have a ticket # now
> >
> >
> > I wonder if it is just radius 2.0 for Linux. Why doesn't 2.0 come with
> > the scripts such as addppp? Did I miss something.
> >
> > Are you running shadow passwords?
> >
> > If you want, send me the source, as I've only got the pre-compiled
> > version. What compile errors are you getting? I can probably compile it.
> >
> >
> > Ed
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> > On Tue, 29 Apr 1997, Gary wrote:
> >
> > > On Tue, 29 Apr 1997, Ed Manaman wrote:
> > >
> > > > Hello,
> > > >
> > > > We've just upgraded to radius 2.0. We tested with a small group of users
> > > > before putting it into place with our 2,000+ users file.
> > > >
> > > > Now that it's in full swing, we have the following problem:
> > > > About every .5-2 hours radius just stops authenticating.
> > >
> > > We have Linux 2.0.30 and we have the same problem! It takes 1 to 5 days
> > > for our authentication to stop. I opened a ticket (number 035958) four
> > > days ago with Livingston, but they have been strangely silent on this. I
> > > have tried to compile the Radius 2.0 source, but I'm having trouble with
> > > that also (Livingston also knows about this).
> > >
> > > > The first time it happened radius said:
> > > > radius[96]: sending SIGHUP signal to unresponsive child process 1944
> > > >
> > > > Now we get nothing, no messages, and it just quits, and leaves 1 radius
> > > > process running, but not doing authentication.
> > > >
> > > > We were using 1.6 with absolutely no problems.
> > >
> > > Sorry I don't have a solution for you, but at least you're not alone!
> > > _______________________________________________________________
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> > > / Gary Swofford - Hampton Roads Online - Yorktown Virginia USA /
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> > >
> > >
> >
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