Thanks Alan, what I am actually trying to achieve is to authenticate users 
against our Linux /etc/shadow or /etc/password/ files. I don't want to use the 
USERS file as it stores passwords in clear text which is what we're trying to 
avoid.








> Hi,
> 
> >    I am a newbie to free radius, I need to know what changes are required in
> >    radiusd.conf or any other file in order to authenticate clients requests
> >    through local machine users(etc/passwd or etc/shadow) instead of making
> >    users in the raddb/users file.
> 
> add users to the system passwd/shadow file, ensure that the 'unix' module
> is enabled. 
> 
> answer based on the scarce info provided
> 
> alan
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