Hi List, My setup: Debian Sarge (2.6.8) Debian package freeradius-mysql 1.0.5-2 FreeRADIUS Version 1.0.5, for host , built on Oct 16 2005 at 11:56:56 I am successfully authentiating dialup users with Freeradius; the users live in a MySQL db. Their IP addresses are assigned by a Patton RAS's internal pool. I want to take this task away from the RAS and have Freeradius ippool take over. Associating a pool with a user is causing that user's access request to be rejected wher it worked before. Following the docs, I have the files db.ipindex and db.ippol set up, and the main_pool is configured in radiusd.conf. user 'gerret' is the gunea pig with the following radcheck table entries: | 1354 | gerret | User-Password | == | testpw | | 1491 | gerret | Pool-Name | == | main_pool | Now here's the tail of two "radtest gerret testpw localhost 0 testing123" runs: 1) With row 1491 not present: modcall[authorize]: module "sql" returns ok for request 2 modcall: group authorize returns ok for request 2 rad_check_password: Found Auth-Type Local auth: type Local auth: user supplied User-Password matches local User-Password Login OK: [gerret] (from client localhost port 0) 2) with boths rows present: rlm_sql (sql): No matching entry in the database for request from user [gerret] rlm_sql (sql): Released sql socket id: 3 modcall[authorize]: module "sql" returns notfound for request 1 modcall: group authorize returns ok for request 1 auth: No authenticate method (Auth-Type) configuration found for the request: Rejecting the user auth: Failed to validate the user. Login incorrect: [gerret/testpw] (from client localhost port 0) Delaying request 1 for 1 seconds Finished request 1 I have tried setting explicit "Auth-Type = Local" in an additional radcheck item to no avail. All mysql queries return the same data in both cases. *cry for help* thanks guys Gerret