(RADIATOR) Make Radiator working with PPTPD

[Hugh Irvine]

Hello Chairul -

To get started with radius I suggest you read the RADIUS RFC's (doc/ 
rfc2865.txt and doc/rfc2866.txt) and then read the Radiator reference  
manual (doc/ref.html). Then you can do some simple experiments with  
radpwtst (test utility) and goodies/simple.cfg.

The steps involved for your application are as follows:

1. configure PPTP to do RADIUS authentication

2. configure PPTP radius to send radius requests to Radiator (IP  
address / UDP port number / shared secret)

3. configure Radiator starting with "goodies/simple.cfg" (Client  
clause to match point 2 above, Realm DEFAULT, AuthBy FILE)

4. run Radiator from the command line so you can see what is going on:

         perl radiusd -foreground -log_stdout -trace 4 - 
config_file .....

5. in a separate window run radpwtst to verify correct operation

6. then run VPN tests to PPTP

At all stages check the trace 4 debug from Radiator so you can see  
what is happening.

hope this helps

regards

Hugh



On 29 Jul 2005, at 14:42, number_one at attglobal.net wrote:

> Yes,
> I've tried it but still have problems getting authenticated.
>
> I said that wrong user id and password, but I'm sure I've put the  
> right one.
> No documents for newbies on the net about how to configure freeradius
> correctly.
> And I've download radiator manual and cannot find the clues either.
> I'm new in this stuff, and I need step by step guide to make it  
> running.
> Can Radiator provide it?
> It was very easy in configuring windows 2003 VPN to authenticate with
> windows radius (IAS) and also complete guide to make it happens.
> I've done it not more than 1 hour to configure it correctly using  
> step by
> step guide from microsoft webpage.
>
> But it is very hard to make pptpd authenticate through Radiator or any
> linux based radius, because lacks of documents for newbies like  
> me ... :(
>
> Chairul
>


NB:

Have you read the reference manual ("doc/ref.html")?
Have you searched the mailing list archive (www.open.com.au/archives/ 
radiator)?
Have you had a quick look on Google (www.google.com)?
Have you included a copy of your configuration file (no secrets),
together with a trace 4 debug showing what is happening?

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