As what user are you attempting to start FreeRADIUS? Most times FR is run as a daemon, so any user that tries to run FR should have permissions to look at FR's files, most time this is root or some other super user. What does radiusd -X say?
Jake Sallee Godfather of Bandwidth System Engineer University of Mary Hardin-Baylor 900 College St. Belton, Texas 76513 Fone: 254-295-4658 Phax: 254-295-4221 -----Original Message----- From: freeradius-users-bounces+jake.sallee=umhb....@lists.freeradius.org [mailto:freeradius-users-bounces+jake.sallee=umhb....@lists.freeradius.org] On Behalf Of DavidS Sent: Sunday, August 14, 2011 5:22 PM To: freeradius-users@lists.freeradius.org Subject: Cant Start Radius Server MAC OSX (snow leopard) Hi I tried to Run Radius Server on Mac OSX Server Snow Leopard. Tried to START Radius It wont start I had made a few changed (detailed below) I went to DEBUG with following out put: server10:~ admin$ radiusd -X FreeRADIUS Version 2.1.3, for host i386-apple-darwin10.0, built on Apr 11 2011 at 17:19:07 Copyright (C) 1999-2008 The FreeRADIUS server project and contributors. There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. You may redistribute copies of FreeRADIUS under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2. Starting - reading configuration files ... including configuration file /private/etc/raddb/radiusd.conf Unable to open file "/private/etc/raddb/radiusd.conf": Permission denied Errors reading /private/etc/raddb/radiusd.conf server10:~ admin$ I had not edited this file Can anyone help ? Thanks CHANGES I MADE PRIOR TO GETTING THIS ERROR First time I used the Radius Server Using Server Admin selected the Radius service - it appeared as expected identified and I entered a local time capsule (That appeared as a base station) The Radius Server was running I stopped the Radius Server AND using textwrangler edited /etc/raddb/clients.conf I entered the following text below the preceding "#" and above the text "client localhost {" client { ipaddr = 192.168.0.100 netmask = 32 secret = XXXX require_message_authenticator = no shortname = slr877 nastype = cisco } I saved the file closed the file Using textwrangler I edited /etc/raddb/users At the end of the file entered user1 Cleartext-Password := “password” Service-Type = NAS-Prompt-User, cisco-avpair = “webvpn:user-vpn-group=SLRgroup1” Saved the file closed the file Tried to restart the Radius Server and got the above error Please help Thanks -- View this message in context: http://freeradius.1045715.n5.nabble.com/Cant-Start-Radius-Server-MAC-OSX-snow-leopard-tp4699245p4699245.html Sent from the FreeRadius - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. - List info/subscribe/unsubscribe? See http://www.freeradius.org/list/users.html - List info/subscribe/unsubscribe? See http://www.freeradius.org/list/users.html