radiusd -X On First Boot

[Alan DeKok]

Brian Carpio wrote:
> I am running RHEL 5.3 and FreeRADIUS Version 2.1.8.
> 
> When I install freeradius and attempt to start it for the first time
> using the /etc/init.d/radiusd start script it always fails (only right
> after freeradius is installed), once i run freeradius with -X (in debug
> mode) it creates all the keys and such then I can cntrl + c and start
> free radius from that point forward using the init script... my question
> is why do I have to do this? Is there anyway around this?

  Install real certificates before starting it?

  Disable EAP completely in the config?

  Alan DeKok.