CORRECTION: output of radtest is below - please ignore the output in prev. post: radtest -x -t eap-md5 JIG46 secret localhost:1645 0 testing123 Read 1 element(s) from input: stdin Loaded: 1 input element(s). Adding new socket: src: 0.0.0.0:0, dst: 127.0.0.1:1645 Added new socket: 5 (num sockets: 1) Transaction: 0, sending packet: 0 (id: 19)... Sent Access-Request Id 19 from 0.0.0.0:63517 to 127.0.0.1:1645 length 69 User-Name = "JIG46" Cleartext-Password = "secret" NAS-IP-Address = 127.0.1.1 NAS-Port = 0 Message-Authenticator = 0x00 EAP-Code = Response EAP-Type-Identity = 0x4a49473436 EAP-Message = 0x025c000a014a49473436 failed decoding EAP: EAP-Message not found Transaction: 0, received packet (id: 19). Received Access-Reject Id 19 from 127.0.0.1:1645 to 0.0.0.0:63517 length 20 EAP transaction finished, but reply is not an Access-AcceptDeallocating (sockfd: 5, id: 19) Main loop: done. And on the server side: Sun Aug 13 16:22:52 2023 : Debug: (0) User-Name = "JIG46" Sun Aug 13 16:22:52 2023 : Debug: (0) NAS-IP-Address = 127.0.1.1 Sun Aug 13 16:22:52 2023 : Debug: (0) NAS-Port = 0 Sun Aug 13 16:22:52 2023 : Debug: (0) Message-Authenticator = 0xdc4c794f063de2f5ee2725854b6efc84 Sun Aug 13 16:22:52 2023 : Debug: (0) EAP-Message = 0x025c000a014a49473436 Sun Aug 13 16:22:52 2023 : Debug: (0) session-state: No State attribute Sun Aug 13 16:22:52 2023 : Debug: (0) Empty authorize section. Using default return values. Sun Aug 13 16:22:52 2023 : ERROR: (0) No Auth-Type found: rejecting the user via Post-Auth-Type = Reject Sun Aug 13 16:22:52 2023 : Debug: (0) Failed to authenticate the user Sun Aug 13 16:22:52 2023 : Debug: (0) Using Post-Auth-Type Reject Sun Aug 13 16:22:52 2023 : Debug: (0) Post-Auth-Type sub-section not found. Ignoring. Sun Aug 13 16:22:52 2023 : Debug: (0) Delaying response for 1.000000 seconds Sun Aug 13 16:22:52 2023 : Debug: Waking up in 0.3 seconds. Sun Aug 13 16:22:53 2023 : Debug: Waking up in 0.6 seconds. Sun Aug 13 16:22:53 2023 : Debug: (0) Sending delayed response Sun Aug 13 16:22:53 2023 : Debug: (0) Sent Access-Reject Id 19 from 127.0.0.1:1645 to 127.0.0.1:63517 length 20 -ddbug