Error when starting FreeRadius

[Alan DeKok]

On Mar 20, 2025, at 8:00 PM, Leandro Tavares <leantava at gmail.com> wrote:
> I am migrating the FreeRadius server from version 2.2.8 to a new machine
> running RHEL9 with FreeRadius 3.0.21-43, but when I try to start the
> services I get the following error:
> 
> /etc/raddb/radiusd.conf[167]: Configuration item "user" is deprecated
> /etc/raddb/radiusd.conf[0]: Cannot use deprecated configuration item "user"
> radiusd: ERROR - Failed to parse user/group information.
> 
> Has anyone else experienced this problem or have a solution?

  It looks like you copied the v2 configuration to v3.  Don't do that.

  This is a major version upgrade.  The configuration files aren't compatible.  You will have to start with a default v3 configuration, and then move functionality over one bit at a time.

  Alan DeKok.