What was the fix? Was it just putting the #shadow back? That was the exact same problem we had, but have not been able to resolve it.
-----Original Message----- From: "Andrew Tait" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2002 10:36:21 +1100 Subject: Re: Configuring to use shadow passwords > Hi All, > > We recently spent several days trying to track down that problem. > > We are running Debian 2.2 potato (stable) which quite a few packages > pulled > from woody (testing), w/ shadow passwords. > > As per the configuration file, we uncommented the: > > # shadow = /etc/shadow > > line in the configuration file, which proved to be our mistake. We > tried > just about everything else we could to get it working. > > Unfortunately I don't have copies of the output from radiusd -X and > radtest, > and the server is now live. > > However, radtest was saying "Access-Reject packet", and radiusd -X > mentioned > something about group authentication and then rlm_unix: invalid > something. > > The problem we were experiencing was the authentication against > accounts in > /etc/passwd|/etc/shadow were not working. > > We had other accounts where the password was stored in the users file, > and > they were working fine. > > Andrew Tait > System Administrator > Country NetLink Pty, Ltd > E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > WWW: http://www.cnl.com.au > 30 Bank St Cobram, VIC 3644, Australia > Ph: +61 (03) 58 711 000 > Fax: +61 (03) 58 711 874 > > "It's the smell! If there is such a thing." Agent Smith - The Matrix > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Alan DeKok" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Tuesday, February 19, 2002 2:49 AM > Subject: Re: Configuring to use shadow passwords > > > > "Robert Bess" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Radius seems to be running. When I run radtest with a username > that > > > exists in the /etc/raddb/users file it works if I specify a > password. > > > > > > i.e. bob Password = "bob" > > > > > > but not if I try to use a real system user. > > > > > > i.e. bob Auth-Type = Unix > > > > > > When I do that radtest says: Access-Reject packet from host . > > > > Have you run the server in debugging mode to see what's *really* > > going on? > > > > > Is there any other reason my server might be rejecting the users in > my > > > system password file? > > > > Have you read the FAQ? > > > > Alan DeKok. > > > > - > > List info/subscribe/unsubscribe? See > http://www.freeradius.org/list/users.html > > > > > - > List info/subscribe/unsubscribe? See > http://www.freeradius.org/list/users.html > - List info/subscribe/unsubscribe? See http://www.freeradius.org/list/users.html
