Maqbool Hashim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have installed FreeRadius on my system and to get familiar with it I > am attempting to the Unix login program to authenticate using the radius > server.
Ok.. > (All programs are running on the same machine, client and radius > server). I'm not sure that's a good idea. > and in /raddb/users I have the following default line: > DEFAULT Auth-Type := System > Service-Type = Login-User Hmm... so long as there's no "PAM" entry for "radiusd", saying "use radius", I guess that's OK. > then in another terminal I execute login and try to login as a normal > user. The login program returns with: > > Authentication service cannot retrieve authentication info. Are there PAM debug logs you can read? > This problem has me confused. If anyone can shed any light on the > matter I would appreciate it. Perhaps the problem lies in the > .../pam.d/login configuration? It's most likely PAM, which is very insistent on not telling you what went wrong, or why. Alan DeKok. - List info/subscribe/unsubscribe? See http://www.freeradius.org/list/users.html