Developers guide

Chapter 5

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# radtest dd9999 Abcd1234 localhost:18120 12 testing123

Sending Access-Request of id 74 to 127.0.0.1 port 18120

User-Name = "dd9999"

User-Password = "Abcd1234"

NAS-IP-Address = 255.255.255.255

NAS-Port = 12

rad_recv: Access-Accept packet from host 127.0.0.1:18120, id=74, length=20

Debug

First, check the FreeRADIUS logs. The file is located at /usr/local/pf/logs/radius.log.

If this didn’t help, run FreeRADIUS in debug mode. To do so, start it using the following command:

# radiusd -X -d /usr/local/pf/raddb

Additionally there is a raddebug tool that can extract debug logs from a running FreeRADIUS daemon.

PacketFence’s FreeRADIUS is preconfigured with such support.

In order to have an output from raddebug, you need to either:

Make sure user pf has a shell in /etc/passwd, add /usr/sbin to PATH (export PATH=/usr/sbin:

$PATH) and execute raddebug as pf

Run raddebug as root (less secure!)

Now you can run raddebug easily:

raddebug -t 300 -d /usr/local/pf/raddb

The above will output FreeRADIUS' debug logs for 5 minutes. See man raddebug for all the options.

Starting PacketFence Services

Once PacketFence is fully installed and configured, start the services using the following command :

service packetfence start

You may verify using the chkconfig command that the PacketFence service is automatically started at

boot time.