Hello. After lots of reading and time testing I have been unable to get sql to authenticate with using radtest. Am I having issues with the the DB setup? I am having no problems with the "users" file. But there seems to be nothing to pursue with the SQL issues. I am almost moved to tears.. and tearing my hair out. I am using: Ubuntu 10.4 (Linode account) Freeradius 2.1.8 MySql5 I want to setup a wireless hotspot. I have spent 4 days tring to get my mind around this. I have uncommented the "SQL" lines where needed. Is it my database or the options I have made. I have spent lots of time on the wiki and mailing list, to the point that confusion now reigns. There needs to be a way for simple setups to be made easy. here is my freeradius -X FreeRADIUS Version 2.1.8, for host i486-pc-linux-gnu, built on Jan 5 2010 at 02:49:11 Copyright (C) 1999-2009 The FreeRADIUS server project and contributors. There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. You may redistribute copies of FreeRADIUS under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2. Starting - reading configuration files ... including configuration file /etc/freeradius/radiusd.conf including configuration file /etc/freeradius/clients.conf including files in directory /etc/freeradius/modules/ including configuration file /etc/freeradius/modules/ldap including configuration file /etc/freeradius/modules/preprocess including configuration file /etc/freeradius/modules/pap including configuration file /etc/freeradius/modules/exec including configuration file /etc/freeradius/modules/krb5 including configuration file /etc/freeradius/modules/wimax including configuration file /etc/freeradius/modules/policy including configuration file /etc/freeradius/modules/ntlm_auth including configuration file /etc/freeradius/modules/sql_log including configuration file /etc/freeradius/modules/linelog including configuration file /etc/freeradius/modules/sqlcounter_expire_on_login including configuration file /etc/freeradius/modules/mac2ip including configuration file /etc/freeradius/modules/otp including configuration file /etc/freeradius/modules/detail.example.com including configuration file /etc/freeradius/modules/expiration including configuration file /etc/freeradius/modules/perl including configuration file /etc/freeradius/modules/unix including configuration file /etc/freeradius/modules/etc_group including configuration file /etc/freeradius/modules/files including configuration file /etc/freeradius/modules/chap including configuration file /etc/freeradius/modules/radutmp including configuration file /etc/freeradius/modules/attr_rewrite including configuration file /etc/freeradius/modules/passwd including configuration file /etc/freeradius/modules/inner-eap including configuration file /etc/freeradius/modules/attr_filter including configuration file /etc/freeradius/modules/realm including configuration file /etc/freeradius/modules/acct_unique including configuration file /etc/freeradius/modules/mschap including configuration file /etc/freeradius/modules/sradutmp including configuration file /etc/freeradius/modules/digest including configuration file /etc/freeradius/modules/echo including configuration file /etc/freeradius/modules/mac2vlan including configuration file /etc/freeradius/modules/cui including configuration file /etc/freeradius/modules/always including configuration file /etc/freeradius/modules/expr including configuration file /etc/freeradius/modules/ippool including configuration file /etc/freeradius/modules/detail.log including configuration file /etc/freeradius/modules/pam including configuration file /etc/freeradius/modules/counter including configuration file /etc/freeradius/modules/logintime including configuration file /etc/freeradius/modules/checkval including configuration file /etc/freeradius/modules/detail including configuration file /etc/freeradius/modules/smsotp including configuration file /etc/freeradius/modules/smbpasswd including configuration file /etc/freeradius/eap.conf including configuration file /etc/freeradius/sql.conf including configuration file /etc/freeradius/sql/mysql/dialup.conf including files in directory /etc/freeradius/sites-enabled/ including configuration file /etc/freeradius/sites-enabled/default including configuration file /etc/freeradius/sites-enabled/inner-tunnel main { user = "freerad" group = "freerad" allow_core_dumps = no } including dictionary file /etc/freeradius/dictionary main { prefix = "/usr" localstatedir = "/var" logdir = "/var/log/freeradius" libdir = "/usr/lib/freeradius" radacctdir = "/var/log/freeradius/radacct" hostname_lookups = no max_request_time = 30 cleanup_delay = 5 max_requests = 1024 pidfile = "/var/run/freeradius/freeradius.pid" checkrad = "/usr/sbin/checkrad" debug_level = 0 proxy_requests = no log { stripped_names = no auth = no auth_badpass = no auth_goodpass = no } security { max_attributes = 200 reject_delay = 1 status_server = yes } } radiusd: #### Loading Realms and Home Servers #### radiusd: #### Loading Clients #### client 127.0.0.1 { require_message_authenticator = no secret = "testing123" } radiusd: #### Instantiating modules #### instantiate { Module: Linked to module rlm_exec Module: Instantiating exec exec { wait = no input_pairs = "request" shell_escape = yes } Module: Linked to module rlm_expr Module: Instantiating expr Module: Linked to module rlm_expiration Module: Instantiating expiration expiration { reply-message = "Password Has Expired " } Module: Linked to module rlm_logintime Module: Instantiating logintime logintime { reply-message = "You are calling outside your allowed timespan " minimum-timeout = 60 } } radiusd: #### Loading Virtual Servers #### server inner-tunnel { modules { Module: Checking authenticate {...} for more modules to load Module: Linked to module rlm_pap Module: Instantiating pap pap { encryption_scheme = "auto" auto_header = no } Module: Linked to module rlm_chap Module: Instantiating chap Module: Linked to module rlm_mschap Module: Instantiating mschap mschap { use_mppe = yes require_encryption = no require_strong = no with_ntdomain_hack = no } Module: Linked to module rlm_unix Module: Instantiating unix unix { radwtmp = "/var/log/freeradius/radwtmp" } Module: Linked to module rlm_eap Module: Instantiating eap eap { default_eap_type = "md5" timer_expire = 60 ignore_unknown_eap_types = no cisco_accounting_username_bug = no max_sessions = 4096 } Module: Linked to sub-module rlm_eap_md5 Module: Instantiating eap-md5 Module: Linked to sub-module rlm_eap_leap Module: Instantiating eap-leap Module: Linked to sub-module rlm_eap_gtc Module: Instantiating eap-gtc gtc { challenge = "Password: " auth_type = "PAP" } Module: Linked to sub-module rlm_eap_tls Module: Instantiating eap-tls tls { rsa_key_exchange = no dh_key_exchange = yes rsa_key_length = 512 dh_key_length = 512 verify_depth = 0 pem_file_type = yes private_key_file = "/etc/freeradius/certs/server.key" certificate_file = "/etc/freeradius/certs/server.pem" CA_file = "/etc/freeradius/certs/ca.pem" private_key_password = "whatever" dh_file = "/etc/freeradius/certs/dh" random_file = "/etc/freeradius/certs/random" fragment_size = 1024 include_length = yes check_crl = no cipher_list = "DEFAULT" make_cert_command = "/etc/freeradius/certs/bootstrap" cache { enable = no lifetime = 24 max_entries = 255 } } Module: Linked to sub-module rlm_eap_ttls Module: Instantiating eap-ttls ttls { default_eap_type = "md5" copy_request_to_tunnel = no use_tunneled_reply = no virtual_server = "inner-tunnel" include_length = yes } Module: Linked to sub-module rlm_eap_peap Module: Instantiating eap-peap peap { default_eap_type = "mschapv2" copy_request_to_tunnel = no use_tunneled_reply = no proxy_tunneled_request_as_eap = yes virtual_server = "inner-tunnel" } Module: Linked to sub-module rlm_eap_mschapv2 Module: Instantiating eap-mschapv2 mschapv2 { with_ntdomain_hack = no } Module: Checking authorize {...} for more modules to load Module: Linked to module rlm_realm Module: Instantiating suffix realm suffix { format = "suffix" delimiter = "@" ignore_default = no ignore_null = no } Module: Linked to module rlm_files Module: Instantiating files files { usersfile = "/etc/freeradius/users" acctusersfile = "/etc/freeradius/acct_users" preproxy_usersfile = "/etc/freeradius/preproxy_users" compat = "no" } Module: Checking session {...} for more modules to load Module: Linked to module rlm_radutmp Module: Instantiating radutmp radutmp { filename = "/var/log/freeradius/radutmp" username = "%{User-Name}" case_sensitive = yes check_with_nas = yes perm = 384 callerid = yes } Module: Checking post-proxy {...} for more modules to load Module: Checking post-auth {...} for more modules to load Module: Linked to module rlm_attr_filter Module: Instantiating attr_filter.access_reject attr_filter attr_filter.access_reject { attrsfile = "/etc/freeradius/attrs.access_reject" key = "%{User-Name}" } } # modules } # server server { modules { Module: Checking authenticate {...} for more modules to load Module: Checking authorize {...} for more modules to load Module: Linked to module rlm_preprocess Module: Instantiating preprocess preprocess { huntgroups = "/etc/freeradius/huntgroups" hints = "/etc/freeradius/hints" with_ascend_hack = no ascend_channels_per_line = 23 with_ntdomain_hack = no with_specialix_jetstream_hack = no with_cisco_vsa_hack = no with_alvarion_vsa_hack = no } Module: Checking preacct {...} for more modules to load Module: Linked to module rlm_acct_unique Module: Instantiating acct_unique acct_unique { key = "User-Name, Acct-Session-Id, NAS-IP-Address, Client-IP-Address, NAS-Port" } Module: Checking accounting {...} for more modules to load Module: Linked to module rlm_detail Module: Instantiating detail detail { detailfile = "/var/log/freeradius/radacct/%{Client-IP-Address}/detail-% Y%m%d" header = "%t" detailperm = 384 dirperm = 493 locking = no log_packet_header = no } Module: Instantiating attr_filter.accounting_response attr_filter attr_filter.accounting_response { attrsfile = "/etc/freeradius/attrs.accounting_response" key = "%{User-Name}" } Module: Checking session {...} for more modules to load Module: Checking post-proxy {...} for more modules to load Module: Checking post-auth {...} for more modules to load } # modules } # server radiusd: #### Opening IP addresses and Ports #### listen { type = "auth" ipaddr = * port = 0 } listen { type = "acct" ipaddr = * port = 0 } Listening on authentication address * port 1812 Listening on accounting address * port 1813 Ready to process requests. rad_recv: Access-Request packet from host 127.0.0.1 port 46252, id=84, length=55 User-Name = "wil" User-Password = "bingo" NAS-IP-Address = 74.207.237.249 NAS-Port = 0 +- entering group authorize {...} ++[preprocess] returns ok ++[chap] returns noop ++[mschap] returns noop [suffix] No '@' in User-Name = "wil", looking up realm NULL [suffix] No such realm "NULL" ++[suffix] returns noop [eap] No EAP-Message, not doing EAP ++[eap] returns noop ++[unix] returns notfound ++[files] returns noop ++[expiration] returns noop ++[logintime] returns noop [pap] WARNING! No "known good" password found for the user. Authentication may fail because of this. ++[pap] returns noop No authenticate method (Auth-Type) configuration found for the request: Rejecting the user Failed to authenticate the user. Using Post-Auth-Type Reject +- entering group REJECT {...} [attr_filter.access_reject] expand: %{User-Name} -> wil attr_filter: Matched entry DEFAULT at line 11 ++[attr_filter.access_reject] returns updated Delaying reject of request 0 for 1 seconds Going to the next request Waking up in 0.9 seconds. Sending delayed reject for request 0 Sending Access-Reject of id 84 to 127.0.0.1 port 46252 Waking up in 4.9 seconds. Cleaning up request 0 ID 84 with timestamp +11 Ready to process requests. Thank you for any help. I will also check the IRC. I will probably write a Doc detailing the process of setting up Freeradius.