Alan, Thanks for your reply. Is the plain text kerberos check something that gets configured in the radiusd.conf file? I was hoping to create a OU in AD called Cisco Admins and then have FreeRADIUS authenticate against those user names and passwords. I was told in another post that according to the radiusd -X output FreeRADIUS was attempting to check another location where no user names or passwords were setup. Thanks again, Doug -----Original Message----- From: freeradius-users-bounces+dwhite=infosysnetworks.com@lists.freeradius.org on behalf of A.L.M.Buxey@lboro.ac.uk Sent: Fri 6/16/2006 1:25 PM To: FreeRadius users mailing list Subject: Re: Active Directory Integration with FreeRADIUS - NTLM_Auth hi, the guide you are following - using ntlm_auth against AD, binding into AD etc is really geared up for doing EAP (PEAP MSCHAPv2 in particular) what _you_ are attempting to do with RADIUS for login authentication of the cisco switches/routers involves plaintext passwords...int his case you'd want to use a kerberos check against your AD instead alan - List info/subscribe/unsubscribe? See http://www.freeradius.org/list/users.html