Thanks Alan Buxey and Marius Pesé - definite progress!! Alan - I think you were right to include the " " around the "NAS-Prompt-User” it was not there in my version download from the internet
And you were both right about the type of quotation marks “webvpn:user-vpn-group=SLRgroup1” vs "webvpn:user-vpn-group=SLRgroup1" Once I corrected the entry in this way all of the Radius log entries disappeared !!! (Which i assume is a good thing) Again I think this is a big step forwards THANK YOU (and to other for their thoughts) I have not got further in testing but I note that Debugging even after the corrections still says the same regarding the reading of config files 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 -- View this message in context: http://freeradius.1045715.n5.nabble.com/Cant-Start-Radius-Server-MAC-OSX-snow-leopard-tp4699245p4703138.html Sent from the FreeRadius - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. - List info/subscribe/unsubscribe? See http://www.freeradius.org/list/users.html