RedHat is deprecating FreeRADIUS for ISPs
I'm sure that there are "good business reasons" for this. https://docs.redhat.com/en/documentation/red_hat_enterprise_linux/8/html/8.9... ... Limited support for FreeRADIUS In RHEL 8, the following external authentication modules are deprecated as part of the FreeRADIUS offering: * The MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQlite, and unixODBC database connectors * The Perl language module * The REST API module ... In addition, the scope of support for the freeradius package will be limited to the following use cases in future RHEL releases: * Using FreeRADIUS as an authentication provider with Identity Management (IdM) as the backend source of authentication. The authentication occurs through the krb5 and LDAP authentication packages or as PAM authentication in the main FreeRADIUS package * Using FreeRADIUS to provide a source-of-truth for authentication in IdM, through the Python 3 authentication package In contrast to these deprecations, Red Hat will strengthen the support of the following external authentication modules with FreeRADIUS: * Authentication based on krb5 and LDAP * Python 3 authentication The focus on these integration options is in close alignment with the strategic direction of Red Hat IdM. .... My comments: RedHat is doubling down in forcing people to use their IdM / LDAP solution. If you're an ISP using FreeRADIUS + MySQL, you will no longer be getting support from RedHat. So too bad for you. The good news is that we will continue to provide free packages for the community at https://packages.inkbridge.io <https://packages.inkbridge.io/> Alan DeKok.
And to go into more detail: https://docs.redhat.com/en/documentation/red_hat_enterprise_linux/9/html/con... Note: Red Hat supports only FreeRADIUS with Red Hat Identity Management (IdM) as the backend source of authentication. i.e. if you're an ISP using RedHat, they will not support you. Alan DeKok.
For the packages you guys build, specifically for the RPMs, can we get the src rpm provided ? I've built the RPMs from the Git sources a few times but it would be easier for our own internal automation if we had the src RPMs available. We had been using the ones provided by RedHat for a while but they lag so far behind on releases it wasn't feasible to keep doing that. On Wed, Nov 5, 2025 at 9:45 AM Alan DeKok via Freeradius-Users < freeradius-users@lists.freeradius.org> wrote:
And to go into more detail:
https://docs.redhat.com/en/documentation/red_hat_enterprise_linux/9/html/con...
Note: Red Hat supports only FreeRADIUS with Red Hat Identity Management (IdM) as the backend source of authentication.
i.e. if you're an ISP using RedHat, they will not support you.
Alan DeKok.
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On 05/11/2025 15:50, BuzzSaw Code wrote:
For the packages you guys build, specifically for the RPMs, can we get the src rpm provided ? I've built the RPMs from the Git sources a few times but it would be easier for our own internal automation if we had the src RPMs available.
We don't have SRPMs. The packages are built from the source tarball with `make rpm`. There are rules to copy all the required files into the required RedHat build directories and run rpmbuild to build the RPMs.
We had been using the ones provided by RedHat for a while but they lag so far behind on releases it wasn't feasible to keep doing that.
Yeah, that's been an issue with distributions for years. -- Matthew
We don't have SRPMs. The packages are built from the source tarball with `make rpm`. There are rules to copy all the required files into the required RedHat build directories and run rpmbuild to build the RPMs
We've used that process as well to create rpms as part of our automation. My request was that the src rpm that results from your building of the official built rpms gets posted as well - unless you are disabling the creation of that. If that's not possible then that's fine, we'll keep building everything from source as well. On Wed, Nov 5, 2025 at 10:59 AM Matthew Newton via Freeradius-Users < freeradius-users@lists.freeradius.org> wrote:
On 05/11/2025 15:50, BuzzSaw Code wrote:
For the packages you guys build, specifically for the RPMs, can we get the src rpm provided ? I've built the RPMs from the Git sources a few times but it would be easier for our own internal automation if we had the src RPMs available.
We don't have SRPMs. The packages are built from the source tarball with `make rpm`. There are rules to copy all the required files into the required RedHat build directories and run rpmbuild to build the RPMs.
We had been using the ones provided by RedHat for a while but they lag so far behind on releases it wasn't feasible to keep doing that.
Yeah, that's been an issue with distributions for years.
-- Matthew
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