chap authenticatin fail

Alan DeKok aland at deployingradius.com
Thu Nov 12 17:17:20 CET 2015


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> Sorry for my basic question though, I'm setting up chap-md5
> authentication FreeRadius3 with traffic tester (Spirent).

  OK...

> From debug:
> Fri Nov 13 00:08:28 2015 : Debug: (0) Found Auth-Type = CHAP
> Fri Nov 13 00:08:28 2015 : Debug: (0) # Executing group from file
> /usr/local/etc/raddb/sites-enabled/default
> Fri Nov 13 00:08:28 2015 : Debug: (0)   Auth-Type CHAP {
> Fri Nov 13 00:08:28 2015 : Debug: (0)     modsingle[authenticate]:
> calling chap (rlm_chap) for request 0
> Fri Nov 13 00:08:28 2015 : ERROR: (0) chap:
> &control:Cleartext-Password is required for authentication

  You need to tell the server what the password is.  This is in the FAQ.

> Of course, I set "Cleartext-Password" Home$raddb/users too.

  Well, no.  If you had set it, it would work.

> I tried lots of combination on it, so I omit the configuraton of it.

  Don't try lots of combinations.  Follow the documentation.

  http://freeradius.org/

  Click on "documentation".  Read the links.  It tells you how to do simple tests.

  Alan DeKok.




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