Invalid User in RADIUS Logs

[Nic Cope]

On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 3:58 PM, Det Det <det.explorer at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Thanks!
>
> Is there a way that I can set log level in RADIUS to make it log like when
> in debug mode? Coz I cannot trace exactly what causes the 'Invalid user' log
> in RADIUS. I have already confirmed that for this case it is not the
> password. So now, I'm left to look into other causes.
Yes, there is a way. Take a look at the comments logging section in
your radiusd.conf -
https://github.com/alandekok/freeradius-server/blob/v2.1.x/raddb/radiusd.conf.in#L410


>
>
> thanks a lot!
> det
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> From: Alan DeKok <aland at deployingradius.com>
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> Sent: Tuesday, December 13, 2011 11:32 PM
> Subject: Re: Invalid User in RADIUS Logs
>
> det.explorer at yahoo.com wrote:
>> Will a wrong password also will sometimes log 'invalid user' in the RADIUS
>> log file? Coz recently i get a lot of these in the log file. But the users
>> are actually valid and was able to authenticate successfully later on. Just
>> want to get possible reasons on what could be causing RADIUS to log that.
>> I'm also suspecting perhaps it was not able to lookup/connect to MySQL db at
>> that time. Would that be possible cause also?
>
>   Yes.
>
>   Alan DeKok.
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Nic Cope
Simian Reliability Engineer
Google Australia