FreeRadius out of the box....

[Guy Fraser]

On Wed, 2006-05-04 at 09:07 +0100, Tony Spencer wrote:
> Because of the issues I've been having with authentication with
> Freeradius I started from scratch and used RPM to remove Freeradius
> and then re-installed the latest version.
> 
> I needed to be able to accept both PAP and CHAP authentication,
> however I couldn't get it to do both and had to by default to get it
> to auth everyone no matter what the password should be. But I don't
> see this as ideal.
> 
> Since I took over the radius server from someone else I'm guessing it
> had been changed by the previous person to the extend where only a re-
> install would solve the problem.
> 
>  
> 
> I read that out of the box Freeradius would accept both PAP and CHAP
> authentication as long as the password was in clear text and I used
> "Password ==".
> 
> So I re-installed Freeradius version freeradius-1.0.1-3.RHEL4.3 and
> convert all the entries from Auth-Type := Accept to "Password ==
> <password>" where <password> was the users password.
...snip...
> 
> DEFAULT Auth-Type = System
> 
>         Fall-Through = 1
...snip...

Auth-Type = System is for reading the user names from the password
file IIRC.

Try :
Auth-Type = Local