FreeRADIUS and Active Directory Integration

[Alan DeKok]

On Jul 23, 2015, at 10:47 AM, Scott Pickles <scottpickles at yahoo.com> wrote:
> I'm sure it's not new, but yes I was looking at other websites and Google after I couldn't get things working reading the Wiki.

  Then ask a question.  It's not hard.

Q: Hi, I'm following a guide on the Wiki at URL.  I'm at step X and expected to see FOO.  Instead I see BAR.  What's up?

  A *HUGE* part of the reason why people run into issues is that they can't ask good questions.

>  I'll start over again with the Wiki, but the problem I had with the Wiki located at guide/FreeRADIUS Active Directory Integration HOWTO is that it's the bare minimum.  It does not cover huntgroups, unlang, memberOf, etc.

  That is a ridiculous request to make.  Each page on the Wiki has ONE subject.  If you want to read about 3 things, you've got to read 3 pages.  That's how documentation works.

> So if someone would like to update the Wiki for more advanced configurations, or point me to where those are already covered in the existing Wiki, I'd appreciate it.

  Go to http://freeradius.org/.  Look for the "documentation" link.  Click on it.  Look for "unlang".  Clock on the link.

  On the same page, there's a clickable link for "configuration files".  Click on it.

  If you read the "huntgroups" file, it contains documentation on what the file does, and how it works.

  If you read the starry of "radiusd.conf", it tells you to go read "man unlang".

  Or go to http://wiki.freeradius.org/.  Click on the "search" box.  Type "unlang" and hit <enter>.  Or type "huntgroups", and hit <enter>

  How much easier does it have to be?

>  My guess is that they aren't covered or I'd likely have found them.

  Nonsense.  They're covered in excruciating detail.  They're point 

>  As a result, off to third parties, Google, etc. and my "new (not new) complaint".

  The only reason you didn't find the existing documentation is that you didn't go to http://freeradius.org, and click on 2-3 *labelled* links.  It's not that freaking hard.

  Quite frankly, this attitude is lazy and offensive.  I've spent hundreds of hours documenting the server, and dozens of hours updating the web site so that the links are easy to find.

  Can you explain where we'd have to put the links so that someone like you can find them?  Because:

1) putting the links in the config files doesn't work.  You don't read them.

2) putting the links in the wiki doesn't work.  You don't read them.

3) putting the links on freeradius.org doesn't work.  You don't read them.

  Apparently for you, google is king.   It MUST be on google, and it MUST NOT be on freeradius.org for you to consider it an "authoritative" source.

  Alan DeKok.