How to log successful/unsuccessful login requests

[alan buxey]

Hi,

> So we have installed FreeRADIUS 2.1.7 via YUM on a 5.6 CentOS Server and 2.1.12 from source on a 5.1 RHEL Server.
> 
> Both are working and are running pretty sweet.  What I can't seem to get working though is getting the RADIUS server to log somewhere that user joe-bob logged in, then user daisy-duke failed to login, etc.  If I run the server in debug mode via radiusd -X I do see this spit to STDOUT.  However, how can I get it to log to a file somewhere on the disk is my question.
> 
> This is from the RHEL 5.1 server running latest, stable of the FreeRadius Server:
> 
> [root at foo radacct]# pwd
> /usr/local/var/log/radius/radacct
> 
> [root at foo radacct]# ls -la
> total 8
> drwx------ 2 root root 4096 Jul 18 17:01 .
> drwx------ 3 root root 4096 Jul 18 17:01 ..
> [root at ttmi-nms2 radacct]#
> 
> Nada.... 
> 
> I have this in the radiusd.conf:
> 
> prefix = /usr/local
> exec_prefix = ${prefix}
> sysconfdir = ${prefix}/etc
> localstatedir = ${prefix}/var
> sbindir = ${exec_prefix}/sbin
> logdir = ${localstatedir}/log/radius
> raddbdir = ${sysconfdir}/raddb
> radacctdir = ${logdir}/radacct
> 
> and
> 
>   #  Log authentication requests to the log file.
>         #
>         #  allowed values: {no, yes}
>         #
>         auth = yes


if you have log auth=yes, then the logging information goes into the main radiusd.log
file - probably in /usr/local/var/log/radiusd.log for you judging by paths defined.

ensure that the server can write to that log as the user you run it as etc.


alan