I have installed freeradius-1.1.6 configured as mentioned http://wiki.freeradius.org/SQL_HOWTO when i do test radtest 12345 12345 x.x.x.x 1645 secret Sending Access-Request of id 2 to x.x.x.x port 1812 User-Name = "12345" User-Password = "12345" NAS-IP-Address = 255.255.255.255 NAS-Port = 1645 rad_recv: Access-Reject packet from host x.x.x.x:1812, id=2, length=20 rad_verify: Received Access-Reject packet from client x.x.x.x port 1812 with invalid signature (err=2)! (Shared secret is incorrect.) rad_recv: Access-Request packet from host x.x.x.x:32772, id=2, length=57 User-Name = "12345" User-Password = "\234\312\252Q\312\261\202\354\227X\364A\271\277" NAS-IP-Address = 255.255.255.255 NAS-Port = 1645 Processing the authorize section of radiusd.conf modcall: entering group authorize for request 9 modcall[authorize]: module "preprocess" returns ok for request 9 modcall[authorize]: module "chap" returns noop for request 9 modcall[authorize]: module "mschap" returns noop for request 9 modcall[authorize]: module "digest" returns noop for request 9 rlm_realm: No '@' in User-Name = "12345", looking up realm NULL rlm_realm: No such realm "NULL" modcall[authorize]: module "suffix" returns noop for request 9 radius_xlat: '12345' rlm_sql (sql): sql_set_user escaped user --> '12345' radius_xlat: 'SELECT id, UserName, Attribute, Value, op FROM radcheck WHERE Username = '12345' ORDER BY id' rlm_sql (sql): Reserving sql socket id: 1 radius_xlat: 'SELECT radgroupcheck.id,radgroupcheck.GroupName, radgroupcheck.Attribute,radgroupcheck.Value,radgroupcheck.op FROM radgroupcheck,usergroup WHERE usergroup.Username = '12345' AND usergroup.GroupName = radgroupcheck.GroupName ORDER BY radgroupcheck.id' radius_xlat: 'SELECT id, UserName, Attribute, Value, op FROM radreply WHERE Username = '12345' ORDER BY id' radius_xlat: 'SELECT radgroupreply.id,radgroupreply.GroupName, radgroupreply.Attribute,radgroupreply.Value,radgroupreply.op FROM radgroupreply,usergroup WHERE usergroup.Username = '12345' AND usergroup.GroupName = radgroupreply.GroupName ORDER BY radgroupreply.id' rlm_sql (sql): Released sql socket id: 1 rlm_sql (sql): No matching entry in the database for request from user [12345] modcall[authorize]: module "sql" returns notfound for request 9 modcall: leaving group authorize (returns ok) for request 9 auth: No authenticate method (Auth-Type) configuration found for the request: Rejecting the user auth: Failed to validate the user. WARNING: Unprintable characters in the password. ? Double-check the shared secret on the server and the NAS! Delaying request 9 for 1 seconds Finished request 9 Going to the next request --- Walking the entire request list --- Waking up in 1 seconds... --- Walking the entire request list --- Waking up in 1 seconds... --- Walking the entire request list --- Sending Access-Reject of id 2 to x.x.x.x port 32772 Waking up in 4 seconds... --- Walking the entire request list --- Cleaning up request 9 ID 2 with timestamp 46b896e7 Nothing to do. Sleeping until we see a request. any suggestions. ram