hi, works as root because it matches the password in /etc/passwd - ie you used your real root username/password?
in this case, i'd advise, for security, you change your root password. this, check the users file, line 172 matched in your debug. i think you've got some DEFAULT Auth-type := System or somesuch in that file? if so, remove it. you using /etc/passwd or want to at all? if not, comment out 'unix' from your radiusd.conf and/or virtual server configs alan - List info/subscribe/unsubscribe? See http://www.freeradius.org/list/users.html
