2.1.1 - radiusd.sock - permission denied

[John Horne]

On Fri, 2008-09-26 at 17:31 +0100, John Horne wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have installed FR2.1.1 onto a test server, built using the Fedora
> rawhide RPM source. No problems building and installing FR, but when I
> start FR it seems to immediately stop. The radius.log file just shows:
> 
>    Fri Sep 26 17:20:58 2008 : Error: Failed to
>    stat /var/run/radiusd/radiusd.sock: Permission denied
> 
> The ls command shows:
> 
>    ls -l /var/run/radiusd/radiusd.sock
>    srw-rw---- 1 radiusd radiusd 0 Sep 26
>                     16:53 /var/run/radiusd/radiusd.sock
> 
> I have tried disabling selinux, and iptables, but they made no
> difference. Changing the permissions to 666 on the socket made no
> difference.
> Running 'radiusd -C' shows nothing, and 'radiusd -X' starts up okay. If
> I then use a different terminal I can run 'radmin' with no problem
> (which I gather uses the socket).
> 
> The problem is, I can't see what permissions may be wrong. Anyone any
> ideas on this?
> 
Sigh. It's always on a Friday afternoon that you get these problems,
send the message to the list and then see what the problem is! :-)

Okay, I deleted the socket and then tried starting FR; it failed but the
log file showed:

   Fri Sep 26 17:41:37 2008 : Error: Failed binding
     to /var/run/radiusd/radiusd.sock: Permission denied

Disabling selinux, and FR then started up okay. Strange because I had
tried disabling selinux before. oh well. Setting the selinux boolean
'radiusd_disable_trans' to on, and enabling selinux, seems to allow FR
to work. However, I'm not sure what these booleans actually do (or
restrict).



John.

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