Cannot Authenticate Local User

[Matthew Newton]

On Wed, Nov 07, 2012 at 04:16:23PM +0200, Manjith Gajadhar wrote:
> I am new to using FreeRadius  and I need help trying to authenticate a
> local user account using FreeRadius. I have installed FreeRadius
> 2.1.12 on Centos 6.3 ....  I have created a local user with the
> following details:

Created a 'local user' how? Added an entry to the users file? (In
which case, did you add it to the top?)

> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> [root at localhost raddb]# radiusd -X
> FreeRADIUS Version 2.1.12, for host i386-redhat-linux-gnu, built on
> Jun 22 2012 at 11:10:43
...

> Listening on accounting address * port 1813
> Listening on command file /var/run/radiusd/radiusd.sock
> Listening on authentication address 127.0.0.1 port 18120 as server inner-tunnel
> Listening on proxy address * port 1814
> Ready to process requests.

You've missed the rest of the log off that contains the actual
authentication attempt, so we can't see what's broken.

Try again with

rtest    Cleartext-Password := "rtest"

at the top of the users file.

Matthew


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