Thanks for that, went back to basics and gradually changed things, it eventually worked by using following in users file.

user1       Acct-Type := Local, User-Password := "password"
               Fall-Through = Yes

Thanks for the pointers

Ian
2008/11/14 <tnt@kalik.net>
>I am upgrading an old machine to a newer version of FreeRadius and i am
>having a few problems.
>
>on old system the user file was similar to:
>
>     user1      Password="whatever"
>     user2      Password="kdkdkd"
>     etc
>
>I hae ried to copy this idea over to the new version along with the old
>dictionaries but its not working,

Don't do that.  Don't butcher the new installation. Instead, copy the
entries from the old users file and adapt them to the new format:

user1   Cleartext-Password := "whatever"

You don't need to set Auth-Type in new version - server does that by
itself.

Ivan Kalik
Kalik Informatika ISP

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