#213 Client
Notes
FreeRADIUS Client is a C framework and library for writing RADIUS Clients.
So far this is a fail. Builds OK, but I hit issues trying to get clients built with this library to talk to the FreeRADIUS Server. KIV for now.
Mac OS X Build
The steps to build and install are in ./download_and_make:
git clone git@github.com:FreeRADIUS/freeradius-client.git
cd freeradius-client
autoreconf -fvi && ./configure && make && sudo make install
- installs client sample programs to
/usr/local/sbin - installs client configs to
/usr/local/etc/radiusclient - installs the libfreeradius-client to
/usr/local/lib
Edit /usr/local/etc/radiusclient/servers to set the shared secret
localhost/localhost testing123
Examples:
- radacct
- radembedded - how to embed the configuration of a radius client, using the FreeRADIUS Client Library without an external configuration file
- radexample - example skeleton client
- radiusclient
- radlogin
- radstatus - get RADIUS server status
Test: radstatus
OK, first client test…
/usr/local/sbin/radstatus
RADIUS: Status failure
RADIUS: Status failure
Hmm, not good. Client is not picking up the shared secret and no hint on the server that it receved a request.
From src/radstatus.c..
/* FIX ME FIX ME FIX ME
* This is broken, now that send_server requires the secret to be passed
* It will need to be collected as an additional argument on command line
*/
OK, looks like this client library needs a bit of maintenance, certainly a bit more study than I’m prepared to do right now