FreeRADIUS and PostgresSQL

[Stefan Winter]

Hi,

> I've been following the HOWTO at http://wiki.freeradius.org/SQL_HOWTO
> but some of it does appear to be out of date.
>   

It's not the HOWTO that's out of date, it's your server version being
ancient. I can only strongly urge you to use the 2.x releases, they are
so much more convenient and feature-rich. Especially if you are setting
up a brand new instance, it's a very bad idea to start with this
outdated version 1.1.3.

> rlm_sql_postgresql: affected rows = 
> rlm_sql: Failed to create the pair: Unknown attribute
> "Cleartext-Password"
> rlm_sql (sql): Error getting data from database
> rlm_sql (sql): SQL query error; rejecting user
>   

And that's where the misery of ancientness kicks in: 1.1.3 did not know
about "Cleartext-Password" yet. If you really want to stick with this
old version, you could use "User-Password" instead. But again: please
don't. Use 2.x.

> Now, it appears that the problem is to do with 'Cleartext-Password' I've
> stored in the database, but this seems to be correct according to the
> HOWTO.  Can anyone see the problem just from the log?  Is there a list
> of all the correct data that could entered into the database?
>   

All attributes are defined in the dictionary (and all the files which
are included by raddb/dictionary). These are hundreds. But it's not
usually necessary to read them - the HOWTOs get you through the config,
so long as the versions they refer to are halfways in sync.

Greetings,

Stefan Winter
> Thanks in advance
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