radius help

[jon jon]

I restarted server and ran radtest but still getting access reject packet.
anything else I should check? Am I at least doing this the right way using
the users file to make a user and see if I can get a access accept message?

On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 3:34 PM, John Dennis <jdennis at redhat.com> wrote:

>  jon jon wrote:
> > I have am using slackware 12.1 and installed freeradius version 2.1.5. I
> > have read the Install and the Readme me file.  I am trying the radtest
> > program out and I start the radius server in debugging mode in one
> > virtual screen and do a "radtest test test localhost 0 testing123" from
> > another virtual screen, I get a access reject of my packets. So the good
> > thing is that my radius server is receiving the packets. Now I move on
> > to see if I create a user called bob in the users file. I put this at
> > the top of the file:
> >  bob     Cleartext-Password := "hello" and run radtest again using
> > "radtest bob hello localhost 0 testing123" and still get access reject
> > message. So I know that my server is up and running, but the user is
> > being rejected because of the password not matching, right?
>
> You need to restart the server to get it to reread the users file.
> Alternatively I believe Alan said HUP would cause the user's file to be
> reread.
>
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