Unable to start RADIUS (Permissions)

[Smith, James]

Hello,
I've attached output from a radius -X command in a text file to provide more information as to what's going on.

I'm receiving the following error:
 # Instantiating module "files" from file /etc/raddb/mods-enabled/files
  files {
        filename = "/etc/raddb/mods-config/files/authorize"
Unable to open file "/etc/raddb/mods-config/files/authorize": Permission denied
  }
/etc/raddb/mods-enabled/files[9]: Invalid configuration for module "files"

For /etc/raddb/mods-config/files/authorize I tried to make the permissions r-w-x for root and radius group and read for all other users... so 774 but I'm not having any luck getting radius to start. When I try to give full permission for testing (777), I get the same error.

I also tried to change /etc/raddb/mods-available/files to 777 just to test and I receive the following:

Configuration file /etc/raddb/mods-enabled/files is globally writable.  Refusing to start due to insecure configuration.
Errors reading or parsing /etc/raddb/radiusd.conf

Makes sense since it's insecure.

Hopefully there is enough information to pin point what's actually going on.

Thanks,
Jim

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