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NAME

       radiusd - Authentication, Authorization and Accounting server

SYNOPSIS

       radiusd [-C] [-d config_directory] [-D dictionary_directory] [-f] [-h] [-i ip-address] [-l
       log_file] [-m] [-n name] [-p port] [-P] [-s] [-t] [-v] [-x] [-X]

DESCRIPTION

       FreeRADIUS is a high-performance and highly configurable RADIUS server.  It supports  many
       database  back-ends  such  as  flat-text  files,  SQL,  LDAP,  Perl, Python, etc.  It also
       supports many authentication protocols such as PAP, CHAP, MS-CHAP(v2),  HTTP  Digest,  and
       EAP (EAP-MD5, EAP-TLS, PEAP, EAP-TTLS, EAP-SIM, etc.).

       It also has full support for Cisco's VLAN Query Protocol (VMPS) and DHCP.

       Please read the DEBUGGING section below.  It contains instructions for quickly configuring
       the server for your local system.

OPTIONS

       The following command-line options are accepted by the server:

       -C     Check the configuration and exit immediately.  If there is a  problem  reading  the
              configuration,  then  the  server  will  exit  with a non-zero status code.  If the
              configuration appears to be acceptable, then the  server  will  exit  with  a  zero
              status code.

              Note that there are limitations to this check.  Due to the complexities involved in
              almost starting a RADIUS server, these  checks  are  necessarily  incomplete.   The
              server  can  return a zero status code when run with -C, but may still exit with an
              error when run normally.

              See the output of radiusd -XC for an informative list of which modules are  checked
              for  correct  configuration,  and  which  modules  are  skipped,  and therefore not
              checked.

       -d config directory
              Defaults to /etc/freeradius. Radiusd looks here for its configuration files such as
              the dictionary and the users files.

       -D dictionary directory
              Set main dictionary directory. Defaults to /usr/share/freeradius.

       -f     Do not fork, stay running as a foreground process.

       -h     Print usage help information.

       -i ip-address
              Defines which IP address that the server uses for sending and receiving packets.

              If  this  command-line  option is given, then the "bind_address" and all "listen{}"
              entries in radiusd.conf are ignored.

              This option MUST be used in conjunction with "-p".

       -l log_file
              Defaults to ${logdir}/radius.log. Radiusd writes it's logging information  to  this
              file. If log_file is the string "stdout" logging will be written to stdout.

       -m     On  SIGINT or SIGQUIT exit cleanly instead of immediately.  This is most useful for
              when running the server with "valgrind".

       -n name
              Read freeradius/name.conf instead of freeradius/radiusd.conf.

       -p port
              Defines which port  is  used  for  receiving  authentication  packets.   Accounting
              packets are received on "port + 1".

              When  this  command-line option is given, all "listen" sections in radiusd.conf are
              ignored.

              This option MUST be used in conjunction with "-i".

       -P     Always write out PID, even with -f.

       -s     Run in "single server" mode.  The server normally runs with multiple threads and/or
              processes, which can lower its response time to requests.  Some systems have issues
              with threading, however, so running in "single server" mode  may  help  to  address
              those  issues.   In single server mode, the server will also not "daemonize" (auto-
              background) itself.

       -t     Do not spawn threads.

       -v     Print server version information and exit.

       -X     Debugging mode.  Equivalent to "-sfxx -l stdout".  When trying  to  understand  how
              the  server  works,  ALWAYS  run it with "radiusd -X".  For production servers, use
              "raddebug"

       -x     Finer-grained debug mode. In this mode the  server  will  print  details  of  every
              request on it's stdout output. You can specify this option multiple times (-x -x or
              -xx) to get more detailed output.

DEBUGGING

       The default configuration is set  to  work  in  the  widest  possible  circumstances.   It
       requires minimal changes for your system.

       However,  your  needs  may  be  complex, and may require significant changes to the server
       configuration.  Making random changes is a guaranteed  method  of  failure.   Instead,  we
       STRONGLY RECOMMEND proceeding via the following steps:

       1)  Always  run  the  server in debugging mode ( radiusd -X ) after making a configuration
       change.  We cannot emphasize this enough.  If you are not running the server in  debugging
       mode,  you  will not be able to see what is doing, and you will not be able to correct any
       problems.

       If you ask questions on the mailing list, the first response will be to tell you "run  the
       server in debugging mode".  Please, follow these instructions.

       2) Change as little as possible in the default configuration files.  The server contains a
       decade of experience with  protocols,  databases,  and  different  systems.   Its  default
       configuration is designed to work almost everywhere, and to do almost everything you need.

       3)  When you make a small change, testing it before changing anything else.  If the change
       works, save a copy of the configuration, and make another change.  If the  change  doesn't
       work, debug it, and try to understand why it doesn't work.

       If  you begin by making large changes to the server configuration, it will never work, and
       you will never be able to debug the problem.

       4) If you need to add a connection to a database FOO (e.g. LDAP or SQL), then:

          a) Edit freeradius/modules/foo
          This file contains the default configuration for  the  module.   It  contains  comments
          describing what can be configured, and what those configuration entries mean.
          b) Edit freeradius/sites-available/default
          This  file contains the default policy for the server.  e.g. "enable CHAP, MS-CHAP, and
          EAP authentication".  Look in this file for all references to your module "foo".   Read
          the  comments,  and  remove the leading hash '#' from the lines referencing the module.
          This enables the module.
          c) Edit freeradius/sites-available/inner-tunnel
          This file contains the default  policy  for  the  "tunneled"  portion  of  certain  EAP
          methods.  Perform the same kind of edits as above, for the "default" file..  If you are
          not using EAP (802.1X), then this step can be skipped.
          d) Start the server in debugging mode ( radiusd -X ), and start testing.

       5) Ask questions on the mailing list (freeradius-users@lists.freeradius.org).  When asking
       questions,  include  the output from debugging mode ( radiusd -X ).  This information will
       allow people to help you.  If you do not include it, the first response  to  your  message
       will be "post the output of debug mode".

       Ask  questions  earlier, rather than later.  If you cannot solve a problem in a day, ask a
       question on the mailing list.  Most questions have been seen before, and can  be  answered
       quickly.

BACKGROUND

       RADIUS  is  a  protocol  spoken  between an access server, typically a device connected to
       several modems or ISDN lines, and a radius server. When a  user  connects  to  the  access
       server,  (s)he  is  asked for a loginname and a password. This information is then sent to
       the radius server. The server replies with "access denied", or "access OK". In the  latter
       case  login  information  is  sent  along,  such  as  the  IP address in the case of a PPP
       connection.

       The access server also sends login and logout records to the radius server  so  accounting
       can  be  done. These records are kept for each terminal server separately in a file called
       detail, and in the wtmp compatible logfile /var/log/radwtmp.

CONFIGURATION

       Radiusd uses a number of configuration files. Each file has it's  own  manpage  describing
       the format of the file. These files are:

       radiusd.conf
              The main configuration file, which sets the administrator-controlled items.

       dictionary
              This  file is usually static. It defines all the possible RADIUS attributes used in
              the other configuration files.  You don't have to modify  it.   It  includes  other
              dictionary files in the same directory.

       hints  Defines  certain hints to the radius server based on the users's loginname or other
              attributes sent by the access server. It also provides for mapping user names (such
              as  Pusername -> username). This provides the functionality that the Livingston 2.0
              server has as "Prefix" and "Suffix" support in the users file, but is more general.
              Of  course  the  Livingston way of doing things is also supported, and you can even
              use both at the same time (within certain limits).

       huntgroups
              Defines the huntgroups that you have, and makes it possible to restrict  access  to
              certain huntgroups to certain (groups of) users.

       users  Here  the  users are defined. On a typical setup, this file mainly contains DEFAULT
              entries to process the different types of logins, based on  hints  from  the  hints
              file.  Authentication  is  then based on the contents of the UNIX /etc/passwd file.
              However it is also possible to define all users, and their passwords, in this file.

SEE ALSO

       radiusd.conf(5), users(5), huntgroups(5), hints(5), dictionary(5), raddebug(8)

AUTHOR

       The FreeRADIUS Server Project (http://www.freeradius.org)

                                           26 Apr 2012                                 RADIUSD(8)