"McNutt, Justin M." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 1)  FreeRADIUS refuses to authenticate any user who does not have an =
> account on the local workstation.

  That's most likely the fault of PAM, if the user is trying to log
into the box.

  PAM does username/password authentication, nothing else.

> Testing with other services (httpd, sshd) shows that Kerberos and =
> pam_krb5.so are working properly.  Cistron RADIUS 1.6.4 did not have =
> this problem.

  Hmmm.. the FreeRADIUS PAM code is pretty similar to the Cistron PAM
code, so I don't know why there's any difference.

> 2)  There is some difference between the way FreeRADIUS 0.5 and Cistron =
> RADIUS 1.6.4 respond when there is no user in the raddb/users file to =
> match an authentication request (and there is no default).

  I don't think so.  They both should reject the user.

> With Cistron RADIUS, this works.  No matter what user name is used, if I =
> enter the locally-configured password for the switch I can gain access.  =
> However with FreeRADIUS 0.5, the BayStack says "Querying RADIUS =
> server..." and waits forever.

  That is probably a different problem.  Use 'tcpdump' to see what's
going on.

  Alan DeKok.

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