Frerradius with M$ SQL-Problem with query.conf

[Alan DeKok]

On Aug 24, 2022, at 3:05 PM, Niko Reinhard <reiniko at web.de> wrote:
> 
> We did as Alan proposed and installed 3.0.20 with the same result.
> Than we want to install 3.0.17 (which is the working version on CentOS
> 7), bute there were no packages at Freradius, therefore we tried to
> build the packes from source. But this was impossible due to some
> dependencies for python which we cant resolve.

  If you don't need Python, just delete rlm_python.  it's fine.

  And you should be able to just do `make rpm` or `make deb`, and it will build the packages.  That's how we build the packages hosted at NetworkRadius.com.

> So we used a package from CentOS' own repository directly, but all these
> packages have an error - the packet "freeradius-config" (which will be
> silently installed by package "freeradius" from networkradius) is
> missed. As a workaround we copied the missing files from our working
> Cent OS 7 installation and - it does also not work. So we give up.
> Then we remembered the proposal from Nick Porter, we installed as he
> recommended FR 3.2.0 with the packet freeradius-freetds and - it worked
> at first go. Thanks Nick!

  OK, that's good.

> So it seems to me the problem lays on the unixodbc driver for release
> CentOS/RH 8. Could that be possible?

   Yes.

> One remark for someone who wants to install it as we did:
> freeradius-freetds needs to bind the EPEL-repository because it installs
> 2 packets from Freetds.
> Alan, we are able to test older versions with unixodbs on release 8 if
> this helps, but this is only possible if you please provide us the rpm
> packets from Freeradius. Install from scratch seems to be beyond our
> skills..

  We'll see if we can reproduce the problem here.

  Alan DeKok.