When to ldap?

Alan DeKok aland at deployingradius.com
Thu May 13 12:54:21 CEST 2010


Dean, Barry wrote:
> The issue is that the self same configuration in FreeRADIUS 2.0.2 works! But with 2.1.8 it fails.

  Yes... the behavior changed slightly in the past 2 years.

  Read raddb/modules/ldap in 2.1.8.  Look for "auth_type".  This is
documented.

> "FR 2.0.2 reports 'rad_check_password: Found Auth-Type ldap' then goes on to authenticate a user against LDAP, whereas FR 2.1.8 reports that there is no Auth-Type set and does not attempt LDAP authentication."

  Yes.  Older versions had the LDAP module set the Auth-Type... which is
wrong.

  Alan DeKok.



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