Unable to start freerad with sudo

Igor Smitran sigor at blic.net
Thu Jul 20 06:20:14 UTC 2023


Why would you start freeradius as user www-data?

Please explain what are you trying to achieve?


Igor


On 20.7.23. 07:57, Stanislav Lorenc wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I can`t start freerad with sudo under lxc
>
> Under debug mode server is started:
>
> sudo -u www-data /usr/sbin/freeradius -f -X
> Listening on auth address * port 5000 bound to server 
> test_local_pppoe_services
> Listening on acct address * port 1813 bound to server 
> test_local_pppoe_services
> Listening on proxy address * port 52599
> Ready to process requests
>
> but in the service command server failed
>
> sudo -u www-data /usr/sbin/freeradius -f
> radiusd: ERROR - Cannot initialize supplementary group list for user 
> freerad: Operation not permitted
>
> sudo -u www-data /usr/sbin/service freeradius start
> Failed to start freeradius.service: Access denied
> See system logs and 'systemctl status freeradius.service' for details.
>
>
> I went through all the logs, but I can't find anywhere if the problem 
> is in radius, systemd, lxc or apparmor.
>
> Thanks for tips
>
> Regards
>
> SL
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