FreeRadius 1.1.7 & Solaris 10

[Alan DeKok]

Roar Pettersen wrote:

> We have a odd problem on one of our FreeRadius servers :
...
> Mon Mar  9 13:40:30 2009 : Error: WARNING: Unresponsive child (id 104)
> for request 2604 (in component authenticate module rlm_pam)

  PAM is blocking the server.

> When this problem occur, then no radius authentication. After a few
> seconds radius is working as it should. We are observing this problem
> ca 2 or 4 times each hour.

  Use something other than PAM.

  FreeRADIUS is only as good as the libraries it depends on.  If the
library shuts down the server for 20-30 seconds, then the problem is in
the LIBRARY, and not in the server.

  Alan DeKok.