I've noticed a little quirk when setting up Packetfence when you get to this step (defining passwords/setting up the database). I believe you're asking about Step 3.
The fields are a bit misleading and hopefully will be redone in future releases for clarification.
At the top there's the option to set the MySQL Root Password.
Leave it blank and hit the 'Test' button -- it should open a prompt for you to create/set a new root password.
Once this is complete, the dialogue box closes and now you can type the newly set password and hit 'test'. It should test as successful.
Now here's the little caveat -- the MySQL root password needs to be entered in this field in order to fill out the rest of the form. This is most likely why you're getting errors.
So with the MySQL Root password typed into the field, you should now be able to do the 'Create Database and Tables" step. You should also be able to create the 'pf' user for the database with the password you choose.
There's a Youtube video from an older version of PacketFence that I found, showing this step: https://youtu.be/D29SxM03F94?t=4m27s
Hope it helps
Sent: Tuesday, July 24, 2018 at 9:50 AM
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Subject: [PacketFence-users] Help
From: "Delta via PacketFence-users" <[email protected]>
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Cc: Delta <[email protected]>
Subject: [PacketFence-users] Help
Hi
This is my first attempt at installing PacketFence. I can't get past the database configuration point. this is the error i get :
Error! Please verify your configuration.
I am using the version 8.1
Please help
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