Freeradius2 configuration challenges ( Binding IP address & failure of radtest

[adaigle at vl.videotron.ca]

Thanks John for being so helpful !
 
I will try to check evrything and review the recommended website
 
Have a great day !
 
Al

----- Message d'origine -----
De: John Dennis <jdennis at redhat.com>
Date: Vendredi, 16 Octobre 2009, 8:02
Objet: Re: Re : Re: Re : Re: Freeradius2 configuration challenges ( Binding IP address & failure of radtest
À: FreeRadius users mailing list <freeradius-users at lists.freeradius.org>

> On 10/15/2009 10:22 PM, adaigle at vl.videotron.ca wrote:
> > Hi Everyone
> > I think I am getting ahead but now I got the following error:
> >
> > [pap] WARNING! No "known good" password found for the 
> user.  Authentication may fail because of this.
> > ++[pap] returns noop
> > No authenticate method (Auth-Type) configuration found for the 
> request: Rejecting the user
> > Failed to authenticate the user.
> >
> >
> > I was just trying to setup PAP (testuser) on the radius
> >
> > Would you know what the error could be ?
> 
> You have to configure FreeRADIUS to tell it where to find users 
> and 
> their passwords. Are they in the FreeRADIUS users file? Are they 
> system 
> users with login accounts? Are they in an ldap directory? Are 
> they in a 
> SQL database?
> 
> If you're trying to just confirm PAP is working then have you 
> read and 
> followed the example here:
> 
> http://deployingradius.com/documents/configuration/pap.html
> 
> BTW, deployingradius.com is the only other web site besides the 
> FreeRADIUS site and it's wiki that is recommended because it's 
> run by 
> Alan DeKok the principal developer of FreeRADIUS. Other web 
> sites tend 
> to have out of date information or erroneous information.
> 
> Also, note that the users file is read upon server start up, if 
> you 
> modify the users file (or any other file read by the server) 
> you'll have 
> to restart the server to see the change. There are other ways to 
> get the 
> server to reload it's files but since you're new to this we're 
> going to 
> keep it simple. As a side note, one advantage of using LDAP or 
> SQL as 
> your backend data source is you can add, remove, and edit the 
> data in 
> the backend and the FreeRADIUS server will immediately see the 
> change 
> without having to do anything special, thus you can immediately 
> see one 
> disadvantage of user data stored in files as opposed to a 
> dynamic backend.
> 
> -- 
> John Dennis <jdennis at redhat.com>
> 
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