Most of the "howtos" assume you're running a recent version of the server. Some systems have *old* versions of the server. We're unable to maintain copies of the documentation for each version of the server.
This makes life harder for the average admin, but we have to draw the line somewhere.
Alan DeKok. - List info/subscribe/unsubscribe? See http://www.freeradius.org/list/users.html
We are running a current version of the server (2.1.10), but somehow the radiusd.conf file is not right. I hope to find out what is wrong exactly and post it here for future use. After a short (and rather violent) discussion with our linux expert I believe originally version 2.0.4 had been installed as that is the current stable version for lenny. But before I started working with it, it had already been upgraded to 2.1.8 and I requested the upgrade to 2.1.10 recently because of the lowercase function. All upgrades, no new installs, perhaps there lies the problem.