Jos Vos wrote:
RH always backports security patches. From their 1.0.1 changelog:
Forgive me for not following how all of the vendors operate.
Deviating from the standard RHEL packages and maintaining your own RPM (this is for a large number of systems) is probably doable (often you encounter incompatibiities with older compilers and libraries, but freeradius is a relatively isolated piece of software, I think), but it also means I have to take care of security problems etc. myself, while RH does that for me now. That's why I only tend to maintain my own version if really necessary.
Given the large difference in functionality between 1.0.x and 1.1.x, it's almost not worth asking for help on this list. Almost everyone is using a *recent* version (i.e. one that's less than a year old). Once 2.0 has been out for a while, I suspect that the answer to questions about 1.0.x will be one word: Upgrade. In other words, it's nice that your preferred vendor supports a product that is many years old. Perhaps they should be supporting it *completely*. i.e. Answering questions about it. If you're not willing to upgrade, understand that no one here is getting paid to go back to a 3-year-old version, and try to figure out how to solve your problem using functionality that they're no longer familiar with. You made a choice to stick with an unsupported version. Upgrade to a supported version, or buy support. Alan DeKok.