Thank you, and freeradius mode?

[Alan DeKok]

On Jun 29, 2025, at 10:31 PM, Kat via Freeradius-Users <freeradius-users at lists.freeradius.org> wrote:
> 3. Third problem: how can I tell if I have successfully started freeradius in debug mode? freeradius -v does not say which mode it is running in. Despite my attempts to start in debug mode, I suspect it is not in debug mode.

  The documentation on this is very extensive.  wiki.freeradius.org/radiusd-X <http://wiki.freeradius.org/radiusd-X> for one.  and wiki.freeradius.org/list-help

  Or "man radiusd".  Or "radiusd -h".

> This is how the Bob initial test result looks:
> Sent Access-Request Id 217 from 0.0.0.0:49095 to 127.0.0.1:1812 length 73
>        User-Name = "bob"
>        User-Password = "test"
>        NAS-IP-Address = 172.17.0.6
>        NAS-Port = 0
>        Message-Authenticator = 0x00
>        Cleartext-Password = "test"
> Received Access-Accept Id 217 from 127.0.0.1:1812 to 127.0.0.1:49095 length 38
>        Message-Authenticator = 0xdf169e01bb4399fada2b31bbde5e7ff3
> 
> So is it possible to tell from this whether freeradius is running in debug mode?

  No.  You cannot tell what the server is doing by look at the client output.

  Alan DeKok.