Thanks Jake Sallee "Hmmm … are you sure you are root?" Despite seeming to me unlikely you were right - (i still hate logging in as root but it was necessary) Thanks Arran Cudbard-Bell "You can sudo to root... sudo -s to get a root shell" thanks for got that. From a bash prompt the output is much better but ends in /private/etc/raddb/users[220]: Parse error (check) for entry Service-Type: Invalid octet string "NAS-Prompt-User??? " for attribute name "" Errors reading /private/etc/raddb/users /private/etc/raddb/modules/files[7]: Instantiation failed for module "files" /private/etc/raddb/sites-enabled/inner-tunnel[111]: Failed to find module "files". /private/etc/raddb/sites-enabled/inner-tunnel[34]: Errors parsing authorize section. } } Any thoughts? THANKS AGAIN! -- View this message in context: http://freeradius.1045715.n5.nabble.com/Cant-Start-Radius-Server-MAC-OSX-sno... Sent from the FreeRadius - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.