Installing FreeRADIUS from source on macOS

Alex Sharaz alex.sharaz at york.ac.uk
Thu Oct 11 11:07:29 CEST 2018


Magic! thanks for the doc. Usually use homebrew ffor stuff but good info to
know
A

On Thu, 11 Oct 2018 at 09:42, Palvelin Postmaster via Freeradius-Users <
freeradius-users at lists.freeradius.org> wrote:

>
>
> > On 11 Oct 2018, at 11:37, Sebastian Hagedorn <Hagedorn at uni-koeln.de>
> wrote:
> >
> > --On 11. Oktober 2018 um 11:22:28 +0300 Palvelin Postmaster via
> Freeradius-Users <freeradius-users at lists.freeradius.org> wrote:
> >
> >> has anyone successfully installed FreeRADIUS 3.x and it’s dependencies
> >> from source on macOS Mojave (or previous versions)? More specifically,
> >> I’m primarily interested in using FR for authenticating against Open
> >> Directory.
> >>
> >> I’d prefer not to use Homebrew to install because I already use
> >> Macports (unfortunately there isn’t a 3.x build available yet).
> >>
> >> The wiki instructions: https://wiki.freeradius.org/building/macOS are
> >> very straight forward but don't include some of the configure flags
> >> ('--with-talloc-lib-dir --with-talloc-include-dir=
> >> --with-openssl-lib-dir= --with-openssl-include-dir’) included in the
> >> Homebrew formula:
> >>
> https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/blob/master/Formula/freeradius-
> >> server.rb
> >>
> >> Also, Apple's Makefile of FreeRADIUS 2.2 included in the Server App has
> a
> >> few other configure flags ('--disable-static --enable-shared
> >> --enable-ltdl-install=yes  --without-rlm_perl --without-rlm_sql_mysql')
> >> as well as some CC and LD flags which I’m thinking could still be
> >> relevant:
> >>
> https://opensource.apple.com/source/freeradius/freeradius-42/Makefile.aut
> >> o.html).
> >>
> >> It would appear OD support is an ’experimental’ feature in FR 3.x so
> >> I believe '--with-experimental-modules’ is needed at the very least.
> >
> > Apple has recently published this guide that also covers FR 3 with OD:
> >
> > <
> https://developer.apple.com/support/macos-server/macOS-Server-Service-Migration-Guide.pdf
> >
>
> Awesome, thanks for pointing this out Sebastian! I’ll take a better look
> at it but looks very promising.
>
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