>> I must be missing something simple but I can't see what it is.
> Add 'files' to 'authorize' It's in the default config. Why did you > delete it? I didn't. It was commented out by default. Uncommenting it fixed everything and all works perfectly now (knock wood). Obvious when you know, but it was pretty well hidden. I was looking in the modules and looking for something that denoted "chap"- not "files". After knowing it, reading through the radiusd.conf makes it pretty plain how to do what I wanted, but I had no idea to even look there. I read through it and didn't "see" it. Thanks for all your help- 'Shot - List info/subscribe/unsubscribe? See http://www.freeradius.org/list/users.html