Sorry, those few things were all I could think of. I don't have an openSUSE server lying around, so I can't even confirm it works at all. Hopefully the source compile of net-snmp and freeradius will uncover the actual problem.
FWIW: I tried it on a non-prod system, compiled net-snmp 5.4 and started it from the command-line - worked. Then I started it with openSUSE's init script - authenticationFailure. Weird, appears to be SUSE-specific. I didn't care enough to further investigate, I hope leaving this on the ML helps someone eventually. Stefan -- Stefan WINTER Stiftung RESTENA - Réseau Téléinformatique de l'Education Nationale et de la Recherche Ingenieur Forschung & Entwicklung 6, rue Richard Coudenhove-Kalergi L-1359 Luxembourg E-Mail: stefan.winter@restena.lu Tel.: +352 424409-1 http://www.restena.lu Fax: +352 422473