Unable to start RADIUS (Permissions)

[Alan DeKok]

On Nov 15, 2017, at 12:15 PM, Smith, James <james.smith at saabsensis.com> wrote:
> 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.

  Then it's not a FreeRADIUS problem.

  If the OS says that FR doesn't have permission to read the files, then the permissions are wrong.  No amount of poking FR will fix the OS.

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

  What OS are you using?

  The default install of FreeRADIUS works on Linux (all variants), *BSD, OSX, etc.  So I'm not sure what else is going wrong here.

  But it looks like something on your OS, and nothing to do with FreeRADIUS.

  Alan DeKok.