I think I agree with you and will compile 1.7 from source. Would likely make this whole thing much easier as it seems like your suggesting. I will try make an rpm and send it to the PclinuxOS repositories as well if possible. That way other users will be able to get the up to date binary. :)
daniel knox wrote:Source code *does* exist for newer versions.
> Basically I had to use radius 1.7 something as it was in the repos.
Newer versions of the server will work without the 0x.
> I have NTPassword in my ldap directory so i could use PEAP, however
> maybe through miss-configuration by me or the fact that my entry does
> not have a preceding 0x. Instead it just has 32digits without the
> preceding two characters could be why this wasnt working. However my
> ldap field is set to max 32chars long so not sure how to append these
> two characters and changing alot of entries if i fuzz up will be very
> bad news.
Or... http://deployingradius.com/
> Atm the setup is like this: openldap directory and freeradius 1.7 on
> same server (xen), freeradius refers to ldap by localhost. Linksys
> wireless access point in enterprise mix mode which only has an ip for
> radius server and port options. Linksys point added to client.conf.
> Iphone for testing.
There are step-by-step instructions for testing EAP from the command line.
Alan DeKok.