radiusd -X On First Boot

[Brian Carpio]

Alan,

Yes thanks for the reply you are correct it probably should go into the RPM
I can rewrite the RHEL rpm to do this if I knew what to do? When I simply
run radiusd -X the keys are created is there a "non interactive" option I
can use to create the keys for the first time such as radiusd --create-keys
(obviously that isn't it)...

Or is there another way to create the keys?

Brian Carpio

On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 1:16 PM, Alan Buxey <A.L.M.Buxey at lboro.ac.uk> wrote:

> Hi,
> > 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?
>
> probably because when run from the init script it cannot actually start the
> daemon (due to requirements to create the key etc).  if everything is in
> place
> correctly beforehand then it will work.
>
> I guess the question , then, is - can the RPM do the required creation of
> example/test keys etc rather than require the admin to jump through the
> hoops - and thats a question for the distro maintainers.
>
> alan
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