Unable to setup freeradius server to authenticate from Unix username/passwords

[Mohit Aron]

Here is the output with Windows 7.


- Mohit


On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 11:34 PM, Mohit Aron <extproxy at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm using the freeradius 2.10 server that comes with Ubuntu 11.10. I'm unable
> to set it up so as to authenticate incoming requests from the Unix
> username/passwords stored in /etc/{passwd, shadow}.
>
> Here is a description of my setup. I've setup wifi security on my wireless
> router to WPA-Enterprise and entered the IP address of the radius server in the
> router to that of a Linux machine running freeradius.
>
> Here's a description of all the changes I made to /etc/freeradius directory to
> even reach the point to make it partially work:
> 1) chown -R freerad /etc/freeradius
>   The above is needed as Ubuntu seems to install every file there as root and
>   thus the freeradius server which runs as user freerad isn't able to read
>   the configuration files.
>
> 2) Modified /etc/freeradius/clients.conf to accept requests from my router's IP
> address. Also added the shared key testing123 there - which is the same that
> was put in the router while configuring it with a radius server.
>
> 3) Changed the 'group =' setting inside /etc/freeradius/radiusd.conf to make it
> 'shadow' to enable it to lookup /etc/shadow.
>
> 4) Uncommmented the keyword 'unix' in both
> /etc/freeradius/sites-enabled/{inner-tunnel,default}
>
> 5) Modified /etc/default/freeradius to pass option '-X' to the freeradius
> server.
>
> I've tried using both Windows 7 as well as an iPad as a client to connect using
> wifi. Each time, the freeradius server running on my Linux box denies the
> requests. I should mention that a 'radtest' succeeds - so I'm entering the
> username/passwd correctly. I'm attaching the output of the freeradius
> server when iPad is used. In a separate email I'll also attach the
> output from Windows 7 (to avoid going over the 100KB message limit in
> this email).
>
> Any help is appreciated.
>
>
> - Mohit
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