On Tue, 14 Oct 2003, VCI Help Desk wrote:
Bill,
> Hi,
>
> I switched to FreeRadius about a week ago and just noticed these errors
> in my radius.log file. I see where Radius has rejected a customers
> authentication because it says the password is wrong or the shell doesn't
> exist. But I have checked these usernames and passwords and shells and they
> are correct. The customer usually gets on invalid login and then it works
> fine. It almost seems as though FreeRadius's rlm_unix file is parsing the
> passwd file wrong.
>
> I do not use shadow passwords. Any ideas what could be causing this?
>
> Thu Oct 9 19:37:22 2003 : Auth: rlm_unix: [alicehill]: invalid shell
> [/home/ctaksch:/bin/false]
>
Is /bin/false listed as a valid shell? I am not sure how
freeradius handles this, but most apps want it listed as a shell. Do you
see this error with other users who have a valid shell?
HTH
John McKinney
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