Hello all,

I encountered a strange problem while editing “users” file.

I have Freeradius 2.0.5 and MS SQL working together. When a request coming in, Freeradius forwards it to MS SQL for authentication of username and password, and Freeradius reads Group Name attribute saved in MS SQL. My goal is to have each username associated to a Group Name. Then based on Group Name, Freeradius decides what IP pool to use, and choose the proper Pool-Name attribute.

So in “users” file, I created the following:

DEFAULT    Group := "doctor", Pool-Name := "julienne"-----------------line133

                      Group := "dentist", Pool-Name := "netplus"-----------------line134

                      Group := "staff", Pool-Name := "staffnet"-------------------line135

When I execute Freeradius, I got the following error:

/usr/local/etc/raddb/users[135]: Syntax error: Previous line is missing a trailing comma for entry DEFAULT

root@Server1:/usr/local/etc/raddb# Errors reading /usr/local/etc/raddb/users

/usr/local/etc/raddb/radiusd.conf[1085]: Instantiation failed for module "files"

/usr/local/etc/raddb/sites-enabled/inner-tunnel[111]: Failed to find module "files".

/usr/local/etc/raddb/sites-enabled/inner-tunnel[34]: Errors parsing authorize section.

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Errors initializing modules

It seems we need a comma at the end of the line which is not right for check items. So instead of doing that, I changed the sentenses to the following, in “users” file:

DEFAULT   Group := "doctor", Pool-Name := "julienne"

DEFAULT   Group := "dentist", Pool-Name := "netplus"

                     Group := "staff", Pool-Name := "staffnet"

This time everything works just fine. I successfully execute Freeradius, and for every user in either of the three groups, Freeradius uses proper Pool-Name to fine IP pool, and user gets a proper IP address falling into that pool.

So can anyone shed some lights on this? Why it returns two results after I do that change? Seems DEFAULT can only have two lines?

Thanks in advance

XJ