I finally figured out what was going on. Before I call this a bug, I'll racap and let the list hash it out.
freeradius-2002-10-21 kept setting the Auth-Type to system causing the radius to use the system authentication and not the password pair on the mysql db. I finally commented out every insistance on Auth-Type from the user.conf in an effort to force it to stop falling through. I even added the Attribute "Fall-Through" to the radgroupreply and set it to "0". However, it ignored the Fall-Through (as I figured it would, because it is rather a moot attribute to have there), now the radius was rejecting authentication because "no authentication type found". Although it was listed in the radgroupreply, as all the examples show. When I went back and uncommented-out the "DEFAULT Auth-Type := System" and changed it from "System" to "Local" then it started working....authenication via the MySql DB. Do we have bug, or am I still not configuring this correctly?? -- robert - List info/subscribe/unsubscribe? See http://www.freeradius.org/list/users.html
