Auth-Type = System not working

[Alan DeKok]

Maillists <maillists at cois.on.ca> wrote:
> but I know 100% that the password is correct.  What appears to be 
> happening (determined from hours of frustrating testing) is Freeradius 
> (rlm_unix) is looking for the users passwords in the /etc/passwd file 
> but my /etc/passwd file doesn't contain any passwords:
> test:*:1003:1003:Test User:/home/test:/bin/sh
> 
> my /etc/master.passwd file does:
> test:$1$RlHYm4Ca$QhlYcYV7BqIjTF.UQ4pTX/:1003:1003::0:0:Test 
> User:/home/test:/bin/sh

  Read radiusd.conf, and look for "/etc/passwd".  Odds are that you
enabled caching of /etc/passw.  There's a reason it's not enabled by
default, it doesn't work on FreeBSD.  Which is explicitly documented.

  Alan DeKok.