Summary

This chapter was all about installing FreeRADIUS on your machine. Specifically, we covered:

  • Installing pre-built binary packages. This is the quickest and surest way to have a working FreeRADIUS server.
  • Building and installing FreeRADIUS from source code. This is a bit more involved, but allows you to run the latest release. This also allows you to boast about your ability to build packages from source code for your Linux distribution.
  • FreeRADIUS installs various executables and contains various modules. Some of these modules are packed separately depending on the Linux distribution that you use. When you require the use of a separately packed module it first has to be installed along with its dependencies.
  • You should also install client utility ...

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