Hi I am newcomer to freeradius, I use the version is 1.1.3 release 1.4.el5 is coming in the repository of centos, my users are in the windows directory, I would like to authenticate users as follows michel@casa.co.cu. Excuse my English is very poor, appreciate any help Thanks Michel ---------------------------------------------- Webmail, servicio de correo electronico Casa de las Americas - La Habana, Cuba.
Hola Michel, You should use the latest version of FreeRADIUS - v2.1.6 which can be downloaded from the FreeRADIUS.org site at: ftp://ftp.freeradius.org/pub/freeradius/freeradius-server-2.1.6.tar.gz. Building the new version of FreeRADIUS on CentOS is pretty easy to do. To configure FreeRADIUS with Active Directory, refer to the documentation on these pages: http://wiki.freeradius.org/FreeRADIUS_Active_Directory_Integration_HOWTO http://deployingradius.com/documents/configuration/active_directory.html How are your users accessing the network - wireless, dialup, DSL, etc? When you have more questions, send e-mail to the list. Good luck! Tim
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Hi I am newcomer to freeradius, I use the version is 1.1.3 release 1.4.el5 is coming in the repository of centos, my users are in the windows directory, I would like to authenticate users as follows michel@casa.co.cu.
Excuse my English is very poor, appreciate any help
Thanks
Michel
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Hello all! On Fri, 5 Jun 2009, Tim Sylvester wrote:
You should use the latest version of FreeRADIUS...
Not picking on Tim or freeradius in particular, but when I post to various lists looking for advice on various pieces of software, I often run into the advice to upgrade to the latest version, instead of sticking with the default version that comes with CentOS. It makes sense. Sometimes the desired feature or solution to a bug is in the newer version. BUT I have a question then: As per the FAQ's, if there is a critical bug in my CentOS version of software, it will still be patched ('back ported'), and it will get automatically updated by running the 'yum update' function. So, if I manually upgrade to the latest (just for example) freeradius, then will yum continue to update this new software with patches and bug fixes? My first feeling is that the answer is 'no' - once I install the new version I will thereafter be responsible for manually keeping 'watch' for bug fixes and updates. So unless I'm wrong, and yum can/will track updates on a new version of software, then it makes more sense to stay with the 'supported' version, even if it is a bit (or very) old. Yes? No? Thanks as always. - Charles
Charles Gregory wrote:
Hello all!
On Fri, 5 Jun 2009, Tim Sylvester wrote:
You should use the latest version of FreeRADIUS...
Not picking on Tim or freeradius in particular, but when I post to various lists looking for advice on various pieces of software, I often run into the advice to upgrade to the latest version, instead of sticking with the default version that comes with CentOS. It makes sense. Sometimes the desired feature or solution to a bug is in the newer version.
BUT I have a question then: As per the FAQ's, if there is a critical bug in my CentOS version of software, it will still be patched ('back ported'), and it will get automatically updated by running the 'yum update' function. So, if I manually upgrade to the latest (just for example) freeradius, then will yum continue to update this new software with patches and bug fixes? My first feeling is that the answer is 'no' - once I install the new version I will thereafter be responsible for manually keeping 'watch' for bug fixes and updates.
So unless I'm wrong, and yum can/will track updates on a new version of software, then it makes more sense to stay with the 'supported' version, even if it is a bit (or very) old. Yes? No?
Much of this information is covered here: http://wiki.freeradius.org/Red_Hat_FAQ The primary reason to upgrade is the vastly superior features in the 2.x versions, plus 2.x resolves some issues which were present in the 1.x series. These things will *not* be backported into 1.1.3, it simply does not make sense. At the moment CentOS 5 only has the 1.1.3 version, however we plan on releasing a freeradius2 with the current 2.x version in the next RHEL5 update. The CentOS folks likely will pick this up. Until the freeradius2 package is in the release stream you are correct, yum upgrade will not pick up new package versions for the 2.x version, however, when it is in the release stream (probably about a year away) then yum will update it automatically. In the interim the above FAQ explains how you can download and install a pre-built version of the freeradius2 RPM for RHEL5 and CentOS5. I currently do not maintain a yum repo for those packages which currently makes this a manual install process, however I could probably set up a yum repo so any upgrades to those packages became automatic once you install the specially prepared yum repo config file. Setting up a yum repo for the RHEL and CentOS 2.x RPMS is not my highest priority task, but I can see how it would be an advantage for folks so I'll try and get it done in the next week (but no promises). In the meantime you can just download the RPM's the FAQ points to. HTH, John -- John Dennis <jdennis@redhat.com> Looking to carve out IT costs? www.redhat.com/carveoutcosts/
John Dennis wrote:
The primary reason to upgrade is the vastly superior features in the 2.x versions, plus 2.x resolves some issues which were present in the 1.x series. These things will *not* be backported into 1.1.3, it simply does not make sense.
A complete backport would involve upgrading the software to 2.x. :)
I currently do not maintain a yum repo for those packages which currently makes this a manual install process, however I could probably set up a yum repo so any upgrades to those packages became automatic once you install the specially prepared yum repo config file. Setting up a yum repo for the RHEL and CentOS 2.x RPMS is not my highest priority task, but I can see how it would be an advantage for folks so I'll try and get it done in the next week (but no promises). In the meantime you can just download the RPM's the FAQ points to.
It may be useful for us to set up a yum & apt repository on freeradius.org. That could simplify things a lot for some people. Alan DeKok.
On 7/06/2009, at 5:14 AM, Alan DeKok <aland@deployingradius.com> wrote:
John Dennis wrote:
The primary reason to upgrade is the vastly superior features in the 2.x versions, plus 2.x resolves some issues which were present in the 1.x series. These things will *not* be backported into 1.1.3, it simply does not make sense.
A complete backport would involve upgrading the software to 2.x. :)
I currently do not maintain a yum repo for those packages which currently makes this a manual install process, however I could probably set up a yum repo so any upgrades to those packages became automatic once you install the specially prepared yum repo config file. Setting up a yum repo for the RHEL and CentOS 2.x RPMS is not my highest priority task, but I can see how it would be an advantage for folks so I'll try and get it done in the next week (but no promises). In the meantime you can just download the RPM's the FAQ points to.
It may be useful for us to set up a yum & apt repository on freeradius.org. That could simplify things a lot for some people.
I know the opensuse build server has many flavours on it so it's pretty "easy" to get packages built for your flavour there. I have built an older version of freeradius on there. So the only thing you really need to focus on is getting a working spec file for rpm.
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On Sun, Jun 07, 2009 at 08:46:08AM +1200, Peter Lambrechtsen wrote:
I know the opensuse build server has many flavours on it so it's pretty "easy" to get packages built for your flavour there. I have built an older version of freeradius on there. So the only thing you really need to focus on is getting a working spec file for rpm.
The issue is that "a working spec file" is not the same as a stable, always secure (maintained by someone else), well-integrated (in your distro) package, like packages included in RHEL are supposed to be. This is why using third-party repositories in general are a bad idea, unless you're really know what you're doing and/or are aware of the risks and disadvantages. -- -- Jos Vos <jos@xos.nl> -- X/OS Experts in Open Systems BV | Phone: +31 20 6938364 -- Amsterdam, The Netherlands | Fax: +31 20 6948204
Peter Lambrechtsen wrote:
I know the opensuse build server has many flavours on it so it's pretty "easy" to get packages built for your flavour there. I have built an older version of freeradius on there. So the only thing you really need to focus on is getting a working spec file for rpm.
There are already working spec files and pre-built RPM's for Fedora, RHEL, and CentOS that are actively maintained. See: http://wiki.freeradius.org/Red_Hat_FAQ -- John Dennis <jdennis@redhat.com> Looking to carve out IT costs? www.redhat.com/carveoutcosts/
Hi,
There are already working spec files and pre-built RPM's for Fedora, RHEL, and CentOS that are actively maintained. See: http://wiki.freeradius.org/Red_Hat_FAQ
personally, I handroll mine from the source because then i choose what goes in and what doesnt (and often require all the debugging features on etc). however, I have used these RPMs supplied for CentOS and Fedora in certain 3rd party occasions and they work exactly as advertised (bringing back that nostalgia of installing 1.0.x onto a redhat box the first time around :-) ) I'd _prefer_ to run from yum/apt/yast but recently a lot of programs have required me to be running bleeding edge to get the features needed now.. this does sometimes happen with technology drives and i know that eventually i can just use the OS supplied version again when they've caught up :-) alan
John Dennis wrote:
Much of this information is covered here: http://wiki.freeradius.org/Red_Hat_FAQ
I currently do not maintain a yum repo for those packages which currently makes this a manual install process, however I could probably set up a yum repo so any upgrades to those packages became automatic once you install the specially prepared yum repo config file. Setting up a yum repo for the RHEL and CentOS 2.x RPMS is not my highest priority task, but I can see how it would be an advantage for folks so I'll try and get it done in the next week (but no promises).
I have set up a yum repo for these packages, see either: http://wiki.freeradius.org/Red_Hat_FAQ#Current_Pre-built_RPM.27s_for_RHEL_5_... or the README found here: http://people.redhat.com/jdennis/freeradius-rhel-centos If you set up your RHEL 5 or CentOS 5 system with the yum configuration then any updates to the download area will be automatically applied. Please note, this yum repository is *ONLY* for RHEL and CentOS version 5 because the 2.x version of freeradius is not currently in those releases (see the above README or FAQ entry for further clarification). Fedora users need to use the normal update stream without modification since freeradius 2.x updates are already present in the Fedora update stream. -- John Dennis <jdennis@redhat.com> Looking to carve out IT costs? www.redhat.com/carveoutcosts/
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Alan DeKok -
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John Dennis -
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Peter Lambrechtsen -
Tim Sylvester