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Summary from our conversation on #ubuntu-server today:
There isn't a problem in the default configuration shipped.
The default configuration includes a comment encouraging the user to
configure /tmp/radius; in doing this the problem arises.
It's not right to use a hardcoded name in /tmp in this way in
production, since there is no guarantee that any given name will be
available. Using /run or /var/lib/radius or similar would be better.
It's not a problem for packaging to ship a tmpfiles.d snippet to create
a directory in some recommended place to save trouble in a non-standard
configuration that follows some published documentation even if it isn't
use in the default configuration.
So I suggest that two changes are needed:
1) The comment should be adjusted to do something more suitable in
production
2) A tmpfiles.d snippet might be added, but only after the documentation
is made clear
I suggest that both of these need to happen from the source of the
comment. I didn't do research to find out whether that originates in
Debian packaging or in upstream, but it doesn't originate from Ubuntu as
the Ubuntu package is in sync with Debian. To make progress, someone
needs to figure out where this comment originates and file a bug there.
Since this is a valid issue I'm marking it Triaged, but it's clearly low
priority because it affects non-default configuration and even then it's
mostly a documentation issue. I don't expect any further progress to be
made on this unless someone volunteers.
** Changed in: freeradius (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Triaged
** Changed in: freeradius (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided => Low
** Summary changed:
- freeradius not starting on boot
+ Configuration comment suggests non-default /tmp/radius configuration which
doesn't exist by default
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Configuration comment suggests non-default /tmp/radius configuration
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