Auth-Type = System not working

[Alan DeKok]

Shane <maillists at cois.on.ca> wrote:
> >   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.
>
> No, that isn't the cause as I have the following in radiusd.conf:
...
>          unix {
>                  # allowed values: {no, yes}
>                  cache = no

  OK...

>                  #  This is required for some systems, like FreeBSD,
>                  #  and Mac OSX.
>                  passwd = /etc/passwd

  Those should be commented out.

  Maybe radiusd doesn't have permission to call getpwent()?  See the
comments around the "unix" module in radiusd.conf.

  Alan DeKok.