new to freeRADIUS - Help

[Nicolas Goutte]

Am 04.08.2009 um 17:13 schrieb Radius Master:

> Hi Nicolas,
>
> Thanks so much for your answer. What i meant was, in the terminal,
> what can I type as a test to get a response from a running instance of
> freeradius.
>
> by RAS, I mean Remote Access Server. Also know as a Network Access
> Server. As I understand it, the PPPoE users first hit the RAS, then
> the rAS passes the query off to freeRadius, then freeRadius tells the
> RAS what to do based on the user's validity, and the RAS either
> accepts or rejects the user.
>
> Do I have the concept right? And if so, do you or anyone know of a RAS
> software that will run on OS X?

Ah, then I have misunderstood you. Sorry that I could not help you.

Perhaps this answer can bring you further: http://lists.freeradius.org/pipermail/freeradius-users/2009-January/msg00515.html

>
> Another question i have, When I spoke briefly to the folks at Network
> RADIUS, they told me that freeRadius includes the required db schema
> for mySQL. When I installed mySQL 5.1, there was a db in there that I
> didn't recognize, called information_schema, comprised of 28 tables.
> Is this it, or is there something special I need to do to enable the
> schema, as i understand from the docs that freeRadius will work with
> almost any datasource including flatfiles.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> PS, if you're wondering if I'm aware of the irony in my name, the
> answer is yes ;)

Have a nice day!

>
> On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 3:35 AM, Nicolas
> Goutte<nicolas.goutte at extragroup.de> wrote:
>>
>> Am 03.08.2009 um 21:46 schrieb Radius Master:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I am in the process of setting up freeRADIUS on Mac OSX. We're a  
>>> small
>>> group looking into becoming a WISP. Can anyone tell me if there is a
>>> RAS that runs on OSX?
>>
>> If by RAS, you mean remote access, then MacOSX has plenty of them:
>> - ssh
>> - (direct) remote desktop client (MacOS 10.5; see in Finder)
>> - remote desktop per iChat (MacOS 10.5)
>>
>>
>>>
>>> The install of freeRADIUS itself seems to have gone smoothly, and I
>>> installed MySQL 5.1 as well, no hitches. I have not, tho, found out
>>> how to tell is freeRADIUS is actually running or not.
>>
>> If by "actually running or not", you mean that a user could check  
>> then use:
>> ps ax
>> If you mean that a program should check I am not sure. A shell  
>> script could
>> use ps, fgrep and co to do that.
>>
>>>
>>> Thanks in advance for all help.
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>>
>> Have a nice day!
>>
>> Nicolas Goutte
>>
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