Alan--thank you for posting your response and proving my point -- diff the tone and content of your response to those of John, Josip and Alan B. -- as the younger set sez, "chill dude"
No one is disparaging your work -- but maybe you need to divert some of your considerable energy to working on your social skills BTW *not* eduroam Alan DeKok-2 wrote: > > sbchem wrote: >>>> <shrug> It's an error produces (sic) by the PAM subsystem. Ask them >> what it means. >> >> <Sigh> It turns out the error is caused by a typo in the radiusd file >> provided in /redhat/radiusd-pam, NOT by the pam subsystem. In fact, the >> pam >> subsystem was merely reporting the error in the freeradius file. The >> message "module not found" was because the radiusd-pam file was pointing >> to >> password.so NOT passwd.so > > OK.. so the error *was* being produced by the PAM subsystem, as I > said. Investigating that subsystem found the problem, and the solution. > > And yes, the FreeRADIUS PAM file needs to be fixed. > >>>> Blaming FreeRADIUS is the same as blaming Dell > > Selective editing does not help your cause. The quote was: > >>> Blaming FreeRADIUS is the same as blaming Dell because the internet >>> is slow. > > The comparison to Dell was because as the computer manufacturer, they > get *enormous* numbers of complaints from inexperienced users, sating > things like "facebook is slow!" > > Similarly, a large number of questions on this list are things like > "how do I get the NAS to do X". The answer is almost always "read the > NAS documentation". Some people end up being offended by this. I have > no idea why. > >> Hmmm--rather defensive are we??? --Alan, no one is blaming anybody for >> anything....it was a simple and honest question that was also posted a >> few >> years ago and remained unanswered -- until now, by me as above. > > My response was a simple and honest one; If subsystem X is producing > an error message... you should really go investigate subsystem X. The > answers will usually be found there. > > Is that so offensive? > >> However I >> do find it interesting that you compare the customer service you provided >> on >> this to that provided by Dell -- if the shoe fits..... > > If you *intentionally* edit my comments so as to misrepresent them, it > shows the paucity of your arguments. > >> I am part of a consortium of public and private universities and >> scientific >> research facilities > > Eduroam? > >> and our internal listserv on radius frequently talks >> people off of freeradius solely because of the sarcastic and chip on the >> shoulder attitude of "some" of the developers. > > "Some"... but you're not naming names... > >> Quit being such a Mordac >> Alan, it scares the tourists and devalues the otherwise excellent work >> done >> by other people on this project. > > Implying that the only excellent work is done by *other* people, and > not me. > >> You can ban me now for such a ghastly breach of etiquette. > > Sadly, I do no such thing, though it's clear you would in a similar > situation. > > You've taken a simple request to investigate the root cause of the > problem, and turned it into a personal attack on me. And you're saying > *I* have a chip on my shoulder? Please, don't pretend to have the moral > high ground here. > > Alan DeKok. > - > List info/subscribe/unsubscribe? See > http://www.freeradius.org/list/users.html > > -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/RADDB-2.1.7-and--etc-shadow-tp28640012p28708369.html Sent from the FreeRadius - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. - List info/subscribe/unsubscribe? See http://www.freeradius.org/list/users.html