On Tue, May 04, 2010 at 09:39:30PM +0100, Alan Buxey wrote:
3.) Install the the main FreeRADIUS package from there, for example with: apt-get install -t lenny-backports freeradius
alternatively, grab the source and build it yourself. the choice is yours.
No, I think that is a false choice for these users. We should not be telling random newbies to take a route that has time and time again been demonstrated to be too complicated for them to handle, when they can easily use a more efficient method - install safe working binaries. That also has the benefit of keeping them in the loop for later updates from the same reliable channel. If they explicitly tell us that they already use Debian, then we can't have much reason to have them avoid these Debian-specific methods that accomplish our goals - to make these people happy users of FR. This is one fairly trivial bug, even if one knows very little about compiling source code - one just has to google, and/or read the official web site (wiki), and find that all they have to do is install that one package and restart the build process, and they're good - yet numerous users have sent an e-mail to the list saying it's been a showstopper for them. I do not see what is there to gain by telling these people to keep using a method they clearly do not understand enough to be able to solve a relatively easy problem with. Sure, they can apply this quick fix now, but will it help their FreeRADIUS experience, and in turn will it help FreeRADIUS? Isn't it better for all to get them past the installation phase as quickly as possible, and not have to rehash these tangential issues, when time could be better spent educating them about core issues such as FreeRADIUS configuration semantics, or RADIUS protocol issues? -- 2. That which causes joy or happiness.