Bug 455690 – net-dialup/freeradius-2.2.0 pkg_postinstall() hint not working

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED FIXED

[Description needle 2013-02-05 18:47:35 UTC]

Following message appears after a successful installation:
* Messages for package net-dialup/freeradius-2.2.0:

 * Users are no longer read from /etc/raddb/radiusd.conf. Please
 * configure them in /etc/conf.d/radius instead.
[...]

This does not work.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install freeradius
2. Setup a test User in /etc/conf.d/radius file
3. Setup a NAS-Client to use RADIUS authentication/authorization
3. run freeradius with debug mode "/usr/sbin/radiusd -X"
4. try to authenticate using freeradius
Actual Results:  
freeradius debug error message:
[pap] WARNING! No "known good" password found for the user.  Authentication may fail because of this.


Expected Results:  
Possibly freeradius did not find the user in /etc/conf.d/radius file, it is looking in /etc/raddb/users file instead

Remove the hint in the post-installation process because it is not true, or not working in the default configuration.

[Comment 1 needle 2013-02-07 16:30:11 UTC]

To make it a bit easier to reproduce this.
Use the standard shipped gentoo configuration from freeradius, there is postinstall hint howto extract it.

* rename the /etc/raddb/users file in f.e. /etc/raddb/users.old 
* start radius in debug mode with "/usr/sbin/radiusd -X"

receive following error message:

---
[...]
 Module: Instantiating module "files" from file /etc/raddb/modules/files
  files {
        usersfile = "/etc/raddb/users"
        acctusersfile = "/etc/raddb/acct_users"
        preproxy_usersfile = "/etc/raddb/preproxy_users"
        compat = "no"
  }
reading pairlist file /etc/raddb/users
Couldn't open /etc/raddb/users for reading: No such file or directory
Errors reading /etc/raddb/users
/etc/raddb/modules/files[7]: Instantiation failed for module "files"
/etc/raddb/sites-enabled/default[170]: Failed to find "files" in the "modules" section.
/etc/raddb/sites-enabled/default[69]: Errors parsing authorize section.

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Logically gentoo freeradius could not start if the users was not included in /etc/conf.d/radius file.

[Comment 2 Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) 2014-05-03 15:57:04 UTC]

I removed the those configuration suggestions in 2.2.5 and 3.0.2.

Anyone facing the daunting task of configuring radiusd is probably better off reading the full documentation anyway. :)