I have posted two requests to this list concerning MySQL issues and FreeRadius. To date I haven't gotten a single response. As I can also use /etc/password and /etc/shadow, I've decided for now to drop using MySQL (e.g. use Auth-Type := System). So hopefully my new problem is now more common. I've tried making updates to the users file for this but I'm still getting "no authenticate method (Auth-Type) configuration found". What am I getting wrong here? In the users file I have: DEFAULT Auth-Type := System, Simultaneous-Use == 1 Fall-Through = Yes Here's the log piece: Acct-Session-Id = "6000006B" User-Name = "bill" User-Password = "bill" NAS-IP-Address = 127.0.0.1 NAS-Port-Id = "32" NAS-Port-Type = Async Service-Type = Framed-User Framed-Protocol = PPP Mon May 8 23:50:01 2006 : Debug: Processing the authorize section of radiusd.conf Mon May 8 23:50:01 2006 : Debug: modcall: entering group authorize for request 1 Mon May 8 23:50:01 2006 : Debug: modsingle[authorize]: calling preprocess (rlm_preprocess) for request 1 Mon May 8 23:50:01 2006 : Debug: modsingle[authorize]: returned from preprocess (rlm_preprocess) for request 1 Mon May 8 23:50:01 2006 : Debug: modcall[authorize]: module "preprocess" returns ok for request 1 Mon May 8 23:50:01 2006 : Debug: modsingle[authorize]: calling chap (rlm_chap) for request 1 Mon May 8 23:50:01 2006 : Debug: modsingle[authorize]: returned from chap (rlm_chap) for request 1 Mon May 8 23:50:01 2006 : Debug: modcall[authorize]: module "chap" returns noop for request 1 Mon May 8 23:50:01 2006 : Debug: modsingle[authorize]: calling mschap (rlm_mschap) for request 1 Mon May 8 23:50:01 2006 : Debug: modsingle[authorize]: returned from mschap (rlm_mschap) for request 1 Mon May 8 23:50:01 2006 : Debug: modcall[authorize]: module "mschap" returns noop for request 1 Mon May 8 23:50:01 2006 : Debug: modsingle[authorize]: calling suffix (rlm_realm) for request 1 Mon May 8 23:50:01 2006 : Debug: rlm_realm: No '@' in User-Name = "bill", looking up realm NULL Mon May 8 23:50:01 2006 : Debug: rlm_realm: No such realm "NULL" Mon May 8 23:50:01 2006 : Debug: modsingle[authorize]: returned from suffix (rlm_realm) for request 1 Mon May 8 23:50:01 2006 : Debug: modcall[authorize]: module "suffix" returns noop for request 1 Mon May 8 23:50:01 2006 : Debug: modsingle[authorize]: calling eap (rlm_eap) for request 1 Mon May 8 23:50:01 2006 : Debug: rlm_eap: No EAP-Message, not doing EAP Mon May 8 23:50:01 2006 : Debug: modsingle[authorize]: returned from eap (rlm_eap) for request 1 Mon May 8 23:50:01 2006 : Debug: modcall[authorize]: module "eap" returns noop for request 1 Mon May 8 23:50:01 2006 : Debug: modsingle[authorize]: calling files (rlm_files) for request 1 Mon May 8 23:50:01 2006 : Debug: users: Matched entry DEFAULT at line 79 Mon May 8 23:50:01 2006 : Debug: modsingle[authorize]: returned from files (rlm_files) for request 1 Mon May 8 23:50:01 2006 : Debug: modcall[authorize]: module "files" returns ok for request 1 Mon May 8 23:50:01 2006 : Debug: modcall: group authorize returns ok for request 1 Mon May 8 23:50:01 2006 : Debug: auth: No authenticate method (Auth-Type) configuration found for the request: Rejecting the user Mon May 8 23:50:01 2006 : Debug: auth: Failed to validate the user.