Unable to start RADIUS (Permissions)

[Alan Buxey]

Hi

Just ensure that all the files are readable by the user the Daemon runs as
- radiusd?

alan

On 15 Nov 2017 5:16 pm, "Smith, James" <james.smith at saabsensis.com> wrote:

> 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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