Step 1: Configuring PAP fails with: No authenticate method (Auth-Type) configuration found for the request: Rejecting the user

Russell D. Mitchell russell.mitchell at lynnsoft.com
Tue Feb 26 20:06:22 CET 2008


OK, so I changed the line in my users file to the following:

bob     Auth-Type := Accept, Cleartext-Password := "hello"

And it now works, but I don't think this is the right thing to do.  
Besides, it was supposed to 'just work'.

/Russ

Russell D. Mitchell wrote:
> I've installed freeradius-server-2.0.2 onto a Fedora Core-5 machine, 
> and tried to perform the first step as described in:  
> http://deployingradius.com/documents/configuration/pap.html.  Both 
> radiusd and radtest were executed with root priviledges.  The only 
> change to config files was to add 'bob Cleartext-Password := "hello"' 
> to /etc/raddb/users, to the top of the file.
>
> As you can see at the end of the radiusd output, the failure appears 
> to be due to:
>
> auth: No authenticate method (Auth-Type) configuration found for the 
> request: Rejecting the user
> auth: Failed to validate the user.
>
> But, I thought this was supposed to 'just work'. Here's the output 
> from 'radtest bob hello localhost 0 testing123'
>
> Sending Access-Request of id 172 to 127.0.0.1 port 1812
>        User-Name = "bob"
>        User-Password = "hello"
>        NAS-IP-Address = 127.0.0.1
>        NAS-Port = 0
> rad_recv: Access-Reject packet from host 127.0.0.1 port 1812, id=172, 
> length=20
>
> And here's the output from 'radisud -X':
>
> Starting - reading configuration files ...
> reread_config:  reading radiusd.conf
> Config:   including file: /etc/raddb/proxy.conf
> Config:   including file: /etc/raddb/clients.conf
> Config:   including file: /etc/raddb/snmp.conf
> Config:   including file: /etc/raddb/eap.conf
> Config:   including file: /etc/raddb/sql.conf
> main: prefix = "/usr"
> main: localstatedir = "/var"
> main: logdir = "/var/log/radius"
> main: libdir = "/usr/lib"
> main: radacctdir = "/var/log/radius/radacct"
> main: hostname_lookups = no
> main: max_request_time = 30
> main: cleanup_delay = 5
> main: max_requests = 1024
> main: delete_blocked_requests = 0
> main: port = 0
> main: allow_core_dumps = no
> main: log_stripped_names = no
> main: log_file = "/var/log/radius/radius.log"
> main: log_auth = no
> main: log_auth_badpass = no
> main: log_auth_goodpass = no
> main: pidfile = "/var/run/radiusd/radiusd.pid"
> main: user = "radiusd"
> main: group = "radiusd"
> main: usercollide = no
> main: lower_user = "no"
> main: lower_pass = "no"
> main: nospace_user = "no"
> main: nospace_pass = "no"
> main: checkrad = "/usr/sbin/checkrad"
> main: proxy_requests = yes
> proxy: retry_delay = 5
> proxy: retry_count = 3
> proxy: synchronous = no
> proxy: default_fallback = yes
> proxy: dead_time = 120
> proxy: post_proxy_authorize = yes
> proxy: wake_all_if_all_dead = no
> security: max_attributes = 200
> security: reject_delay = 1
> security: status_server = no
> main: debug_level = 0
> read_config_files:  reading dictionary
> read_config_files:  reading naslist
> Using deprecated naslist file.  Support for this will go away soon.
> read_config_files:  reading clients
> read_config_files:  reading realms
> radiusd:  entering modules setup
> Module: Library search path is /usr/lib
> Module: Loaded exec
> exec: wait = yes
> exec: program = "(null)"
> exec: input_pairs = "request"
> exec: output_pairs = "(null)"
> exec: packet_type = "(null)"
> rlm_exec: Wait=yes but no output defined. Did you mean output=none?
> Module: Instantiated exec (exec)
> Module: Loaded expr
> Module: Instantiated expr (expr)
> Module: Loaded PAP
> pap: encryption_scheme = "crypt"
> Module: Instantiated pap (pap)
> Module: Loaded CHAP
> Module: Instantiated chap (chap)
> Module: Loaded MS-CHAP
> mschap: use_mppe = yes
> mschap: require_encryption = no
> mschap: require_strong = no
> mschap: with_ntdomain_hack = no
> mschap: passwd = "(null)"
> mschap: authtype = "MS-CHAP"
> mschap: ntlm_auth = "(null)"
> Module: Instantiated mschap (mschap)
> Module: Loaded System
> unix: cache = no
> unix: passwd = "(null)"
> unix: shadow = "/etc/shadow"
> unix: group = "(null)"
> unix: radwtmp = "/var/log/radius/radwtmp"
> unix: usegroup = no
> unix: cache_reload = 600
> Module: Instantiated unix (unix)
> Module: Loaded eap
> eap: default_eap_type = "md5"
> eap: timer_expire = 60
> eap: ignore_unknown_eap_types = no
> eap: cisco_accounting_username_bug = no
> rlm_eap: Loaded and initialized type md5
> rlm_eap: Loaded and initialized type leap
> gtc: challenge = "Password: "
> gtc: auth_type = "PAP"
> rlm_eap: Loaded and initialized type gtc
> mschapv2: with_ntdomain_hack = no
> rlm_eap: Loaded and initialized type mschapv2
> Module: Instantiated eap (eap)
> Module: Loaded preprocess
> preprocess: huntgroups = "/etc/raddb/huntgroups"
> preprocess: hints = "/etc/raddb/hints"
> preprocess: with_ascend_hack = no
> preprocess: ascend_channels_per_line = 23
> preprocess: with_ntdomain_hack = no
> preprocess: with_specialix_jetstream_hack = no
> preprocess: with_cisco_vsa_hack = no
> Module: Instantiated preprocess (preprocess)
> Module: Loaded realm
> realm: format = "suffix"
> realm: delimiter = "@"
> realm: ignore_default = no
> realm: ignore_null = no
> Module: Instantiated realm (suffix)
> Module: Loaded files
> files: usersfile = "/etc/raddb/users"
> files: acctusersfile = "/etc/raddb/acct_users"
> files: preproxy_usersfile = "/etc/raddb/preproxy_users"
> files: compat = "no"
> Module: Instantiated files (files)
> Module: Loaded Acct-Unique-Session-Id
> acct_unique: key = "User-Name, Acct-Session-Id, NAS-IP-Address, 
> Client-IP-Address, NAS-Port"
> Module: Instantiated acct_unique (acct_unique)
> Module: Loaded detail
> detail: detailfile = 
> "/var/log/radius/radacct/%{Client-IP-Address}/detail-%Y%m%d"
> detail: detailperm = 384
> detail: dirperm = 493
> detail: locking = no
> Module: Instantiated detail (detail)
> Module: Loaded radutmp
> radutmp: filename = "/var/log/radius/radutmp"
> radutmp: username = "%{User-Name}"
> radutmp: case_sensitive = yes
> radutmp: check_with_nas = yes
> radutmp: perm = 384
> radutmp: callerid = yes
> Module: Instantiated radutmp (radutmp)
> Listening on authentication *:1812
> Listening on accounting *:1813
> Ready to process requests.
> rad_recv: Access-Request packet from host 127.0.0.1:32775, id=172, 
> length=55
>        User-Name = "bob"
>        User-Password = "hello"
>        NAS-IP-Address = 127.0.0.1
>        NAS-Port = 0
>  Processing the authorize section of radiusd.conf
> modcall: entering group authorize for request 0
>  modcall[authorize]: module "preprocess" returns ok for request 0
>  modcall[authorize]: module "chap" returns noop for request 0
>  modcall[authorize]: module "mschap" returns noop for request 0
>    rlm_realm: No '@' in User-Name = "bob", looking up realm NULL
>    rlm_realm: No such realm "NULL"
>  modcall[authorize]: module "suffix" returns noop for request 0
>  rlm_eap: No EAP-Message, not doing EAP
>  modcall[authorize]: module "eap" returns noop for request 0
>    users: Matched entry bob at line 1
>  modcall[authorize]: module "files" returns ok for request 0
> modcall: group authorize returns ok for request 0
> auth: No authenticate method (Auth-Type) configuration found for the 
> request: Rejecting the user
> auth: Failed to validate the user.
> Delaying request 0 for 1 seconds
> Finished request 0
> Going to the next request
> --- Walking the entire request list ---
> Waking up in 1 seconds...
> --- Walking the entire request list ---
> Waking up in 1 seconds...
> --- Walking the entire request list ---
> Sending Access-Reject of id 172 to 127.0.0.1:32775
> Waking up in 4 seconds...
> --- Walking the entire request list ---
> Cleaning up request 0 ID 172 with timestamp 47c459c7
> Nothing to do.  Sleeping until we see a request.
>
>
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