Unable to start freerad with sudo
Anatoliy Kushner
cphlpd at gmail.com
Thu Jul 20 09:46:05 UTC 2023
Change it to www-data
\ AK
> On 20 Jul 2023, at 17:42, Stanislav Lorenc <stanislav.lorenc at cernovice.net> wrote:
>
> From radiusd.conf
>
> user = freerad
> group = freerad
>
>> Hi Stanislav,
>>
>>> On Thu, Jul 20, 2023 at 07:57:55AM +0200, Stanislav Lorenc wrote:
>>> 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.
>> What are the details saying?
>>
>> You could try "su www-data" or "su www-data -" and then start the freeradius
>> server to see which of the two steps fail.
>>
>> BTW: Using www-data as freeradius user looks very strange to me.
>>
>> Greetings
>> Hermann
>>
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