user/group and permissions CentOS 4.4

Alan DeKok aland at deployingradius.com
Fri Jan 12 16:25:37 CET 2007


Andrew Long wrote:
> In process of building 1.4 on CentOS 4.4. When started (as root) in
> debug mode, all goes well. When using default user/group nobody I get
> 
>> Info: Starting - reading configuration files ...
>> radiusd: Couldn't open /usr/local/var/log/radius/radius.log for logging: Permission denied
>>   (rlm_exec: Wait=yes but no output defined. Did you mean output=none?)
>> radiusd: Couldn't open /usr/local/var/log/radius/radius.log for logging: Permission denied
>>   (Failed creating PID file /usr/local/var/run/radiusd/radiusd.pid: Permission denied)
> 
> Can someone give me a little guidance with the permissions and
> user/group setup for Cent.

  I would suggest running the server as user "radiusd", group "radiusd".
 The var/log/radius directory should be writable by that user.

  Alan DeKok.
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