[radius] Freeradius/MySql problem

[Radius]

Alan DeKok wrote:

>Radius <radius at kingmanaz.net> wrote:
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>>I have a directory /etc/raddb/dictonary
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>  FreeRADIUS never created that.
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>  It should be a file.
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It was a file. I should have been more clear.

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>>> See raddb/dictionary in the 1.0.4 source distribution.
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>>it says in there that they are at /usr/local/share/freeradius/
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>>and they are there. I did the default installation.
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>  What you missed is that the dictionary in /etc/raddb/dictionary
>should be nothing more than a reference to the
>/usr/local/share/freeradius files.
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Yep it did.

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>>When I edit and delete the dups, it just keeps going one file after
>>the other.
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>  Exactly.  Your "adjustments" are based on incomplete knowledge, and
>as a result, are wrong.
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>  The simple solution is to re-install 1.0.4, but this time do:
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>$ ./configure --prefix=/opt/freeradius
>$ make
>$ make install
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This is what I did do the first time when all the troubles started.

The second and third time I installed, I left it out figuring that caused
the problem.

>  Since you don't already have a "/opt/freeradius" directory, it will
>make one, install itself, and the version of the server in
>/opt/freeradius WILL WORK.
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Nope, it never got created there. I checked. Nothing in that directory.

Yes I'm logged in as user root.

>  You can then update the configuration files in
>/opt/freeradius/etc/raddb to match your local configuration.
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>  And DON'T EDIT THE DICTIONARY FILES.
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>  Alan DeKok.
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