how to change the radius default "testing123" password

Alan DeKok aland at deployingradius.com
Wed Oct 2 23:02:01 CEST 2013


Clint Petty wrote:
> Hi Alan,
> 
> Thanks for your reply.  However, I have already changed the instances of the password "testing123" in the following files:
>
> StrongSwan:/etc/strongswan/strongswan.conf

  That's good.

> Radius:/etc/raddb/proxy.conf

  That's not good.  The secret there is for home servers, not clients.
I suggest changing it back.

> Radius:/etc/raddb/sites-available/dynamic-clients
> Radius:/etc/raddb/sites-available/originate-coa
> Radius:/etc/raddb/sites-available/robust-proxy-accounting

  That's not good.  Those files are NOT used by the running server.  I
suggest changing it back.

> Radius:/etc/raddb/clients.conf

  That's good.

> After restarting the strongswan and radiusd service, I was not able to authenticate to my LDAP server, and had to change the entries back to "testing123"?  What am I missing here?

  Well, it should work.  What does the debug output say?  That should
tell you *exactly* what's going on.

  Alan DeKok.


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