Freeradius

Mark J. Bobak mark at bobak.net
Sat Jun 30 18:36:15 CEST 2018


Just a quick addition to Alan's comment on *good* questions.

This has been around for many. many years, but most people have never heard
of it.

Definitely worth a read:
http://www.catb.org/esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

Thanks to Alan and others who tirelessly answer so many questions here!

-Mark

On Sat, Jun 30, 2018 at 10:06 AM, Alan DeKok <aland at deployingradius.com>
wrote:

>
> > On Jun 30, 2018, at 9:37 AM, Uchenna Nebedum <nebeduch at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >  Javier, you do realize that all you were able to achieve with that video
> > was a tip of the iceberg of what you can with freeRADIUS. I don't know
> > where all your bitterness is from
>
>   The red flag was "I tried 1000 different things".
>
>   Every time someone says that, it means they're not following the
> documentation.  Worse, they're going out of their way to *avoid* following
> the documentation.
>
>   Every good sysadmin knows to put their ego away when trying to fix
> things.  Read the docs, follow the docs, get it fixed.
>
>   The people who think they're smarter than everyone else don't read the
> docs, they don't follow the docs, and they get angry when others tell them
> they made a mistake.
>
>   While FreeRADIUS is complex, following the docs will get the problem
> fixed 90% of the time.  The other 10% of the time, ask questions on the
> list.  And ask *good* questions.
>
>   We don't expect everyone to be experts.  We *do* expect people to
> listen, and to follow instructions.
>
>   It's that simple.
>
>   Alan DeKok.
>
>
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