FreeRadius, SQL, PAM, and Headaches

[Shannon Johnson]

Alan,   I finally figured out what my problem was with the Freeradius server communicating to the SQL database, and I got that up and working (from the localhost). Thank you everybody for all your help. :-)   Now I’m trying to figure out how to get my workstations to communicate with the server. I’m running Red Hat 8, which has a slightly different PAM setup than previous versions. From my rather limited understanding of PAM, it looks like almost every application refers back to /etc/pam.d/system-auth to authenticate. I tried adding the line “auth sufficient /lib/security/pam_radius_auth.so” into sshd, but it doesn’t work. It gives me a protocol error. The FreeRadius server never even gets the request, so it must be something to do with PAM or the client setup. I tried running radtest from the client command line, but that also never gets to the server (or doesn’t show up when it’s in debug mode). After I get that working, I would like it to map a couple directories via NFS (or something more secure, if possible). Any ideas?   Shannon