Re: Auth-Type = System not working

[Shane <maillists@cois.on.ca>]

Alan DeKok wrote:
> Maillists <maillists@cois.on.ca> wrote:
> > but I know 100% that the password is correct.  What appears to be 
> > happening (determined from hours of frustrating testing) is Freeradius 
> > (rlm_unix) is looking for the users passwords in the /etc/passwd file 
> > but my /etc/passwd file doesn't contain any passwords:
> > test:*:1003:1003:Test User:/home/test:/bin/sh
> >
> > my /etc/master.passwd file does:
> > test:$1$RlHYm4Ca$QhlYcYV7BqIjTF.UQ4pTX/:1003:1003::0:0:Test 
> > User:/home/test:/bin/sh
>
>   Read radiusd.conf, and look for "/etc/passwd".  Odds are that you
> enabled caching of /etc/passw.  There's a reason it's not enabled by
> default, it doesn't work on FreeBSD.  Which is explicitly documented.
>
>   Alan DeKok.

No, that isn't the cause as I have the following in radiusd.conf:

# Unix /etc/passwd style authentication
        #
        unix {
                # allowed values: {no, yes}
                cache = no
		# Reload the cache every 600 seconds (10mins). 0 to
                # disable.
                cache_reload = 600
                #  This is required for some systems, like FreeBSD,
                #  and Mac OSX.
                passwd = /etc/passwd
                shadow = /etc/master.passwd
                group = /etc/group
                #
                radwtmp = ${logdir}/radwtmp
        }

I'm assuming the cache_reload=600 doesn't matter as it the cache was 
disabled earlier in the code.  Any other things I should check to get 
Auth-Type = System working?

Shane