3.0.21 installed from source fails to parse /mods-config/files/authorize?

Installed 3.0.21 from source on Ubuntu18 (from scratch) and onCentOS7 over previous working 3.0.20 instance, and in both cases got the following when doing the "Initial Test" radtest testing password 127.0.0.1 0 testing123 as per https://wiki.freeradius.org/guide/Getting-Started (0) pap: WARNING: No "known good" password found for the user. Not setting Auth-Type (0) pap: WARNING: Authentication will fail unless a "known good" password is available Entry in "users" ( /mods-config/files/authorize symlink) file is updated testing Cleartext-Password := "password" users file is still a symlink. Any advice why the radiusd seems to be ignoring the users file? Thank you!