I am little bit confused as how to configure radiusd.conf in the authorize and/or authenticate section. So password is going to act like ldap attribute. We are going to pass, username and ldap attribute (home phone #) as input for each user. The way it is configured now is in the modules, ldap { server = "10.11.12.2" identity = "cn=Manager,dc=eng,dc=com" password = answer2 basedn = "dc=eng,dc=com" filter = "(&(uid=%{Stripped-User-Name:-%{User-Name}})(phone=1231313128))" // just for testing ldap_connections_number = 5 timeout = 4 timelimit = 3 net_timeout = 1 } authorize { .. .. .. ldap ... } authenticate { Auth-Type LDAP { ldap } } In the logs it says: rlm_ldap: - authorize rlm_ldap: performing user authorization for test1 radius_xlat: '(&(uid=test1)(phone=1231313128))' radius_xlat: 'dc=eng,dc=com' rlm_ldap: ldap_get_conn: Checking Id: 0 rlm_ldap: ldap_get_conn: Got Id: 0 rlm_ldap: attempting LDAP reconnection rlm_ldap: bind as cn=Manager,dc=eng,dc=com/answer2 rlm_ldap: waiting for bind result ... rlm_ldap: Bind was successful rlm_ldap: performing search in dc=eng,dc=com, with filter (&(uid=test1)(phone=1231313128)) rlm_ldap: looking for check items in directory... rlm_ldap: looking for reply items in directory... rlm_ldap: user test1 authorized to use remote access this is good.... But in the authenticate section rlm_ldap: - authenticate rlm_ldap: login attempt by "test1" with password "1231313128" rlm_ldap: user DN: id=1967816, dc=eng,dc=com rlm_ldap: bind as id=1967816, dc=eng,dc=com/1231313128 rlm_ldap: waiting for bind result ... rlm_ldap: id=1967816, dc=eng,dc=com bind to 10.11.12.2:389 failed Inappropriate authentication rlm_ldap: ldap_connect() failed Not sure why it is trying to bind as id=1967816, dc=eng,dc=com/1231313128 The only thing I want to do it, just authorize the ldap and pass the user through. Please let me know if I am missing something. Thanks so much. Regards, Erik. ____________________________________________________________________________________ Be a better sports nut! Let your teams follow you with Yahoo Mobile. Try it now. http://mobile.yahoo.com/sports;_ylt=At9_qDKvtAbMuh1G1SQtBI7ntAcJ