I really appreciate your thoughts - it seems to me whatever I am admin or root this surely cant be a normal output for debugging.
Does it seem likely that you would have to activate a root user level on a mac to run a Radius server? Have others had to do that that you know of? Without root I think I may have made some progress. What I was trying to do was add the following to the file "users" user1 Cleartext-Password := “password” Service-Type = NAS-Prompt-User, cisco-avpair = “webvpn:user-vpn-group=SLRgroup1” Afterwards the Radius logs shows Sun Aug 14 23:46:52 2011 : Error: /private/etc/raddb/users[221]: Parse error (reply) for entry user1: Expected end of line or comma Sun Aug 14 23:46:52 2011 : Error: Errors reading /private/etc/raddb/users Sun Aug 14 23:46:52 2011 : Error: /private/etc/raddb/modules/files[7]: Instantiation failed for module "files" Sun Aug 14 23:46:52 2011 : Error: /private/etc/raddb/sites-enabled/inner-tunnel[111]: Failed to find module "files". Sun Aug 14 23:46:52 2011 : Error: /private/etc/raddb/sites-enabled/inner-tunnel[34]: Errors parsing authorize section. Sun Aug 14 23:46:52 2011 : Error: Errors initializing modules And debuging shows 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$ If i take the entry I made out of the users file, the log files show NO errors (the last log line after starting the radius server is) Sun Aug 14 17:48:29 2011 : Info: Ready to process requests. BUT With OR Without my entry to "users" debugging shows the same output (as above) Please help Thanks PS for the mac users who need it in terminal window type: sudo passwd root Enter Password: <existing admin pw> Changing password for root New password: <whatever root pw you want> Verify password: <whatever root pw you want> NOTE Setting the root password also enables root login at the same time. I recommend you don't use the root account unless you have to. When I put it back in the Radius logs show -- View this message in context: http://freeradius.1045715.n5.nabble.com/Cant-Start-Radius-Server-MAC-OSX-snow-leopard-tp4699245p4700096.html Sent from the FreeRadius - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. - List info/subscribe/unsubscribe? See http://www.freeradius.org/list/users.html