Start FreeRadius 4.0 with rlm_tacacs failed due to segV error

[bryan xiang]

I update my virtual server config as below, but seems request sendout
failure

server default {
        namespace = radius

        listen {
                type = Access-Request
                type = Status-Server
                transport = udp
                udp {
                        ipaddr = 169.254.195.0
                        port = 1812
                }
        }

        recv Access-Request {
             subrequest @tacacs::Authentication-Start {
                User-Name := parent.request.User-Name
                User-Password := parent.request.User-Password
                Packet.Version-Major := 0xC
                Packet.Version-Minor := 0x0
                Packet.Packet-Type := "Authentication"
                Packet.Sequence-Number := 1
                Packet.Flags := "None"
                Packet.Session-Id := 12345678
                Packet.Length := 0

                tacacs
            }

        }


}

Debug : (0.0)        tacacs - Sending Authentication-Start ID 31 length 29
over connection proto tcp local 0.0.0.0 port 0 remote 10.76.89.50 port 49
Debug : (0.0)          tacacs - Packet-Type = Authentication-Start
Debug : (0.0)          tacacs - User-Name = "testuser1"
Debug : (0.0)          tacacs - User-Password = "testpass123"
Debug : (0.0)          tacacs - Packet {
Debug : (0.0)            tacacs - Version-Major = Plus
Debug : (0.0)            tacacs - Version-Minor = 0
Debug : (0.0)            tacacs - Packet-Type = Authentication
Debug : (0.0)            tacacs - Sequence-Number = 1
Debug : (0.0)            tacacs - Flags = None
Debug : (0.0)            tacacs - Session-Id = 12345678
Debug : (0.0)            tacacs - Length = 0
Debug : (0.0)          tacacs - }
ERROR : (0)        ERROR: Request has reached max_request_time - signalling
it to stop
Debug : (0)  Done request

On Fri, Apr 25, 2025 at 9:24 AM bryan xiang <bryanxiang82 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Yes, I am doing the thing you suggested, I need to check how the Packet
> structure to Networks
> I can't assign the Packet-Type, even I use "Authentication" and 1, it will
> > init the packet-type to 0
> Any guideline about how to assign value for the Struct type defined in
> dictionary?
>
>         recv Access-Request {
>              subrequest @tacacs::Authentication-Start {
>                 User-Name := parent.request.User-Name
>                 User-Password := parent.request.User-Password
>                 *Packet.Packet-Type := 1*
>                 tacacs
>             }
>
>         }
>
> On Fri, Apr 25, 2025 at 8:32 AM Alan DeKok <aland at deployingradius.com>
> wrote:
>
>> On Apr 24, 2025, at 11:32 AM, bryan xiang <bryanxiang82 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > Thank you Alan for the explanation
>> > that make sense to provide the attributes to TACACS+ when change
>> protocol
>> > from Radius to TACACS+
>> > so beside the username/password, I need below attribute right?
>>
>>   Yes... those are the attributes included with the server, in the TACACS
>> dictionary files.  I'm aware of them.
>>
>> > I can't assign the Packet-Type, even I use "Authentication" and 1, it
>> will
>> > init the packet-type to 0
>> > for the namespace issue, I firstly type namespace as tacacs in the
>> virtual
>> > server, but seems it can't receive Radius request from port 1812, so I
>> > changed namespace from tacacs to radius, then the FreeRadius begin to
>> > listen the port 1812
>> > do you mean in the modules/tacacs, I still need to specify the
>> namespace as
>> > tacacs?
>>
>>   What I said was to use the following configuration:
>>
>> >> recv Access-Request {
>> >>        subrequest @tacacs::Authentication-Start {
>> >>                User-Name := parent.request.User-Name
>> >>                User-Name := parent.request.User-Password
>> >>                ... fill in other attributes here, from
>> dictionary/tacacs/*
>> >>
>> >>                tacacs
>> >>
>> >>        }
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>  You will have to edit this and double-check it, but the basic concepts
>> >> are there.
>>
>>   Instead of doing that, you're doing something else.  Why?
>>
>>   Alan DeKok.
>>
>>
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