User authentication using Mysql table - radacct

[Alan DeKok]

N S wrote:
> Hi All,
> I was running radius both the daemon and the debug mode as the root user.
> And this is the log from radius.log

  Is it while running the server as user "radiusd"?

...
> Thu Dec 21 20:09:00 2006 : Error: rlm_sql_mysql: Mysql error 'Can't
> connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock'

  Does user "radius" have permissions to read/write that file?

  Alan DeKok.
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