freeradius + mysql trouble

[Alan DeKok]

Ski Mountain wrote:
> Hi everybody,
> I am trying to set up freeradius so that it authenticates off a myql
> database.  sql.conf is being included in the config.  But the rlm_sql is
> never loaded and I have been trying to figure out why.  It does not
> appear to even try to connect to the database and I am stumped as to why. 
> 
> I have also followed (http://wiki.freeradius.org/SQL_HOWTO) to no avail. 

  Part way through, it says:

Edit /etc/raddb/sites-available/default  ...

  You didn't do that.

> # /usr/sbin/freeradius  -X
> FreeRADIUS Version 2.0.4, for host i486-pc-linux-gnu, built on Sep  7
> 2008 at 23:35:34

  Why use a version that's two years old?

  Alan DeKok.