Hi George, Have you ever heard of Google? It's amazing the stuff you can find on there, and people won't get annoyed with you for asking the list to do your job for you - which comes across as a bit lazy... HUP is straightforward, read http://www.freebsddiary.org/hup.php Everyone has to start somewhere but I'd suggest this list might not be the best place to ask basic Linux questions. There are some other really good places which I find very useful when I started out with this stuff http://www.linuxquestions.org/ is a good one. Mark -----Original Message----- From: freeradius-users-bounces+mark.holmes=nuffield.ox.ac.uk@lists.freeradius.org [mailto:freeradius-users-bounces+mark.holmes=nuffield.ox.ac.uk@lists.freeradius.org] On Behalf Of George Innocent Sent: 07 August 2012 14:24 To: FreeRadius users mailing list Subject: Re: Failed to authenticate the user And how do i send this signal of change> On Tue, Aug 7, 2012 at 4:03 PM, Alan DeKok <aland@deployingradius.com> wrote: George Innocent wrote: > How long does the Radius changes take to synchronize with the NAS; what > commands should i use to make effect changes made on the files. You need to take a Unix 101 course. You clearly have no idea what you're doing. If you're editing the "users" file, then you will need to send the server a HUP signal. > So far the NAS authenticates successfully with 5-10 attempts before > changes made get to synchronize with the NAS. No. Alan DeKok. - List info/subscribe/unsubscribe? See http://www.freeradius.org/list/users.html -- Regards: George Innocent. Nuffield College is a Registered Charity No. 1137506. Registered Office: Nuffield College, New Road, Oxford, OX1 1NF