hi, please stop emailing in HTNL!
anyway, yes - a LOT of people find that they need to use a privileged account for the LDAP bind - personally, I would create a new account that has the required priv's to search the LDAP etc but doesnt have as much power as root. alan - List info/subscribe/unsubscribe? See http://www.freeradius.org/list/users.html
