I was simply using the debian package manager version, seams to work file for what I need.

is version of freeradius supplied by distro or package manager?

have you uncommented calls to sql - eg in the default server or inner-tunnel (look in the required/needed sections, eg authorize, authenticate etc). i also note you dont have SSL support so wont be able to do any EAP stuff.

alan

That was exactly the problem, none of the docs mention that file which is why I missed it.

Part way through, it says:

Edit /etc/raddb/sites-available/default ...

You didn't do that.

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# /usr/sbin/freeradius -X FreeRADIUS Version 2.0.4, for host i486-pc-linux-gnu, built on Sep 7 2008 at 23:35:34 Copyright (C) 1999-2008 The FreeRADIUS server project and contributors.