FreeRADIUS Beginner's Guide

Summary

This chapter gave us initial hands-on experience of FreeRADIUS. We have also learned more on documentation and the workings of the FreeRADIUS server called radiusd.

Specifically, we have covered:

• Configuring FreeRADIUS: FreeRADIUS has a primary configuration file called radiusd.conf. Various other configuration files get sourced through the primary configuration file using the $INCLUDE keyword.
• NAS devices: An NAS device is a RADIUS client and shares a secret with the RADIUS server. NAS devices are defined in the clients.conf file. The localhost is by default defined as a client. This enables us to do various tests with RADIUS client programs like radclient and radtest.
• Defining users: The users file is a quick and simple way to define users ...