Freeradius 3.x with LDAP authentication

[Alan DeKok]

On Aug 15, 2017, at 2:49 PM, Adam Cage <adamcage27 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Dear Matthew and Alan, I take your advice and I will use my current
> succesful Freeradius platform for AUTHENTICATION (samba, winbind,
> ntlm_auth, mschapv2....according to Alan Dekok guide) and I will try to use
> LDAP for AUTHORIZATION as you said.
> 
> I'm listing my current Debian packages installed in my Freeradius server,
> and I see freeradius-ldap is not present:
> 
> freeradius                     2.2.5+dfsg-0.2

  That version is YEARS out of date.

  Please install a recent version of the server.   Packages for most common OS's are on http://packages.networkradius.com/

> When I go to /etc/freeradius/modules I can see the ldap file, so is it
> necessary to install freeradius-ldap or not??? Because maybe it's
> sufficient to edit my current /etc/freeradius/modules/ldap file, I can't
> understand the sense of having freeradius-ldap package.

  The freeradius-ldap package has the rlm_ldap library.  The main package has the configuration files.

  Think of it this way: if freereadius-ldap wasn't needed to do LDAP... then why would it exist?

  Alan DeKok.