Hello list, the red hat faq on http://wiki.freeradius.org/Red-Hat-FAQ supposes that the newest version of FR is in the official channel. Here on a RHEL6 server there is only version 2.1.10 in the repo (and only the base package, not the additional modules like mysql, ldap and so on): # yum info freeradius\* Loaded plugins: product-id, rhnplugin, security, subscription-manager Updating certificate-based repositories. Available Packages Name : freeradius Arch : i686 Version : 2.1.10 Release : 5.el6 Size : 1.3 M Repo : rhel-i386-server-6 Summary : High-performance and highly configurable free RADIUS server License : GPLv2+ and LGPLv2+ Description : The FreeRADIUS Server Project is a high performance and highly configurable : GPL'd free RADIUS server. The server is similar in some respects to : Livingston's 2.0 server. While FreeRADIUS started as a variant of the : Cistron RADIUS server, they don't share a lot in common any more. It now has : many more features than Cistron or Livingston, and is much more configurable. : : FreeRADIUS is an Internet authentication daemon, which implements the RADIUS : protocol, as defined in RFC 2865 (and others). It allows Network Access : Servers (NAS boxes) to perform authentication for dial-up users. There are : also RADIUS clients available for Web servers, firewalls, Unix logins, and : more. Using RADIUS allows authentication and authorization for a network to : be centralized, and minimizes the amount of re-configuration which has to be : done when adding or deleting new users. Where can I get the newest version of FR, which channel is meant? Regards, Tobias Hachmer
On 05/24/2012 07:22 AM, Tobias Hachmer wrote:
Hello list,
the red hat faq on http://wiki.freeradius.org/Red-Hat-FAQ supposes that the newest version of FR is in the official channel. Here on a RHEL6 server there is only version 2.1.10 in the repo (and only the base package, not the additional modules like mysql, ldap and so on):
If the FAQ suggests the latest version of FreeRADIUS will always be available on RHEL then that is erroneous. If you could point out what made you believe that I'll edit the FAQ. However we do a very good job in RHEL with keeping the version of FreeRADIUS current given RHEL policies. For stability reasons RHEL strongly discourages version upgrades (i.e. rebase). There is also a practical limit to how many changes can go into any given RHEL update due to the QE and documentation that accompanies every change. We fought hard to get special dispensation for FreeRADIUS in RHEL and for the last several years we've managed to rebase FreeRADIUS in the quarterly updates for RHEL 5 and RHEL 6. For some this might seem like it's no big deal, you just rebuild it right? Not in an Enterprise Distribution like RHEL, Enterprise has completely different and vastly more stringent requirements (one reason whey RHEL and it's clones are so popular). Given the difficulty of getting a package rebase into an Enterprise release you should not expect every RHEL version to have the latest version of FreeRADIUS. In fact any expectation that any RHEL release will have the latest release of any package is misplaced, it's completely counter to the design goals of RHEL whose preeminent goal is stability. This is why what we've done with FreeRADIUS in RHEL is exceptional, very few packages get this special treatment. To answer your specific question, the next RHEL 6 update, 6.3 contains the latest FreeRADIUS 2.1.12 release plus a number of bug fixes (some of which have already been sent upstream to Alan, some were pulled from Alan's git repo, and the remainder will be sent upstream to Alan shortly, we always send our fixes upstream in a community minded fashion. The last update of RHEL 5 also included FreeRADIUS 2.1.12. All the subpackages for freeradius (e.g. freeradius-mysql) are available. If you're not seeing them for some reason please contact your RHEL technical support representative, that's what they're there for. It's what your paying for with your subscription, use it. HTH, John -- John Dennis <jdennis@redhat.com> Looking to carve out IT costs? www.redhat.com/carveoutcosts/
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