Re: odd radius 2.0 message...
John G. Thompson (jgt10@livingston.com)
Tue, 27 May 1997 17:34:10 -0700
At 12:03 PM 5/25/97 -0500, Jeff Carneal wrote:
>
>Hey folks, I gave radius 2.0 a shot yesterday and we had a bit of trouble
>with it. I have a DEFAULT entry pointing of "system" so it will
>authenticate from the passwd file, but some users called saying it flat
>wouldn't accept their passwords. They were typing the usernames and
>passwords correctly (we verified many times). I noticed these messages in
>syslogs:
>
>May 24 11:50:18 apex radius[2748]: auth: access-request from
><portmaster IP> denied for unknown user jsmith
>May 24 11:51:03 apex radius[2821]: auth: access-request from
><portmaster IP> denied for unknown user jsmith
>
>It almost looks as if radius didn't use the DEFAULT entry and when it
>couldn't find a user entry for "jsmith" it denied authentication. Is that
>right? If so, how do I fix it?
>
>It should be noted that we had a number of other customers logging into
>the same portmaster. The customers in question were both Windows 3.1
>users logging in with the IE dialer (I think version 3.0).
>
Is ANYONE getting authenticated?
What are you running the RADIUS server on?
Have you tried starting the radius server with a '-x -l /etc/raddb/logfile'
to capture debugging information?
What does the DEFAULT entry look like?
JGT
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