Converting from GNU radius for a computone Client and an OpenVPN client using port 1645

The Doctor doctor at doctor.nl2k.ab.ca
Fri Jun 19 20:39:37 CEST 2020


On Fri, Jun 19, 2020 at 02:10:42PM -0400, Alan DeKok wrote:
> On Jun 19, 2020, at 2:04 PM, The Doctor <doctor at doctor.nl2k.ab.ca> wrote:
> >>   i.e. you deleted everything in the "authorize" section.
> > 
> > Never touched the original files.
> 
>   Not true.
> 
>   If you start the server using the default configuration files, it will NEVER produce the message:
> 
> "Empty authorize section.  Using default return values."
> 
>   The ONLY time it produces that message is when the default configuration files (a) aren't used, or (b) have been edited.
> 
> > WEll I have been at it for 3 weeks.
> > 
> > Let's go to where is authorize section should be.
> 
>   Throw away all of the work you've done.  It's wrong.  It should take about a day to convert the GNU radius configuration you posted to the list.
> 
>   Go back to the default configuration files for FreeRADIUS.  Make ONE change.  i.e. edit the clients.conf file to add a client.  Then start the server, and see if it works.  Test ONE thing at a time.
> 
>   This is what "man radiusd" says to do.  I know, because I wrote it.  I wrote it because too many people butchered everything in the default config, and then posted on the list saying "I edited everything, and now it doesn't work".
> 
>   Use the default config.  Make small changes.  It WILL work.

Just with people accessing the server quite readily, testing will be 
somewhat limited.

> 
>   Alan DeKok.
> 

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