Thanks for the thoughts on this...it looks like the permissions on those directories are all good:

# ls -al /var/log/radius/
total 10
drwx------  3 radiusd radiusd  128 Mar 12 14:54 .
drwxr-xr-x 13 root    root    1552 Mar 17 11:36 ..
drwx------  2 radiusd radiusd   48 Apr 23  2008 radacct
-rw-r--r--  1 radiusd radiusd 5150 Mar 17 11:51 radius.log
-rw-r--r--  1 radiusd radiusd    0 Apr 23  2008 radutmp

# ls -al /tmp
drwxrwxrwt  9 root root      616 Mar 18 08:54 .

# ls -al /etc/raddb/
total 208
drwxr-xr-x  3 root root      664 Mar 12 16:11 .
drwxr-xr-x 83 root root     7072 Mar 17 11:33 ..
-rw-r--r--  1 root radiusd   422 Apr 23  2008 acct_users
-rw-r--r--  1 root radiusd  4074 Apr 23  2008 attrs
drwxr-x---  3 root radiusd   472 Mar 12 14:41 certs
-rw-r-----  1 root radiusd  2937 Apr 23  2008 clients.conf
-rw-r--r--  1 root radiusd   929 Apr 23  2008 dictionary
-rw-r-----  1 root radiusd  9332 Apr 23  2008 eap.conf
-rw-r-----  1 root radiusd  4620 Apr 23  2008 example.pl
-rw-r--r--  1 root radiusd  2396 Apr 23  2008 hints
-rw-r--r--  1 root radiusd  1604 Apr 23  2008 huntgroups
-rw-r--r--  1 root radiusd  2333 Apr 23  2008 ldap.attrmap
-rw-r-----  1 root radiusd  9330 Apr 23  2008 mssql.conf
-rw-r-----  1 root radiusd   856 Apr 23  2008 naspasswd
-rw-r--r--  1 root radiusd  7316 Apr 23  2008 otp.conf
-rw-r-----  1 root radiusd  1396 Apr 23  2008 otppasswd.sample
-rw-r-----  1 root radiusd 14467 Apr 23  2008 postgresql.conf
-rw-r-----  1 root radiusd  1039 Apr 23  2008 preproxy_users
-rw-r-----  1 root radiusd  8834 Apr 23  2008 proxy.conf
-rw-r--r--  1 root radiusd 64646 Mar 12 16:06 radiusd.conf
-rw-r-----  1 root radiusd  1405 Apr 23  2008 snmp.conf
-rw-r-----  1 root radiusd 14173 Apr 23  2008 sql.conf
-rw-r-----  1 root radiusd  6974 Mar 12 14:54 users

So, unless there's another location that the radiusd user needs access to? I've verified that the service is definitely running as radiusd.

I also looked up the possibility of the selinux protection and it's not set up at all on this system.

Other thoughts? I'm stumped on this one.

Thanks,

Greg

A.L.M.Buxey@lboro.ac.uk wrote:
> Hi,
>
>
> when run in debug, it runs with greater privs - check your eg /var/log/radius
> directory, your used tmp directories, /etc/raddb  etc for their permissions - does the
> user/group you have defined in radiusd.conf have relevant read/write permissions
>
> other common issue is eg selinux daemon/service protection
>
> alan


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