Thanks Stefan

It's not the HOWTO that's out of date, it's your server version being ancient. I can only strongly urge you to use the 2.x releases, they are so much more convenient and feature-rich. Especially if you are setting up a brand new instance, it's a very bad idea to start with this outdated version 1.1.3.

I'm sorry I assumed it was the HOWTO that was wrong, but the HOWTO did say, "...I tested this instructions on CentOS 5.0 and CentOS 5.1. CentOS 5.x came with FreeRadius 1.1.3..." As we are using OEL 5.4 I thought this would be OK.

And that's where the misery of ancientness kicks in: 1.1.3 did not know about "Cleartext-Password" yet. If you really want to stick with this old version, you could use "User-Password" instead. But again: please don't. Use 2.x.

Ah! That is good news. The problem is that I'm working under constraints of a support agreement that will only allow us to install the packages that come with OEL 5.x, so at the moment, 1.1.3 is the only thing I can work with :-(

All attributes are defined in the dictionary (and all the files which are included by raddb/dictionary). These are hundreds. But it's not usually necessary to read them - the HOWTOs get you through the config, so long as the versions they refer to are halfways in sync.

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