Password Authentication Failing

Alan DeKok aland at deployingradius.com
Tue Nov 27 20:34:49 CET 2007


Frank Everitt wrote:
> I'm running Freeradius 1.1.6 on a Solaris 10 platform and have run
> across a strange problem. My password file contains over 80 thousands
> entries and it appears that freeradius won't find a user entry beyond
> line 76665. Is there a buffer that can be bumped up or have I just
> reached a limitation of using the UNIX style password file within radiusd?

  Is the password being fetched from the "unix" module, or the "passwd"
module?  If it's "passwd", switch to "unix".  If it's "unix", then
FreeRADIUS just does 'getpwent', and it's up to the system libraries to
return the right entry.

  Alan DeKok.



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