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HockeyNomad33's avatar
Apr 11, 2016

free Radius server

Hi,

 

I am looking for guidance on using the free Radius server app and setup, the web interface appears to be broken. Is it possible to operate this from the CLI via SSH,

 

My goal is to have te radius server authenticate wireless clients. only a small network with a handfull of users. I'm not to interested in having a seperate dedicated server running because of te small number of devices. and as the NAS is on and running anyway, i feel it is the perfect solution to have it handle this function.

 

ReadyNAS RN104 running on OS 6.4.2. Currently no other apps installed or enabled.

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        HockeyNomad33
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        The issue i was getting was when using the Web GUI, it would display as if it was off but regardless of what i semed to do it would not turn on. The port was blank and wouldnt allow me to choose a port ( I was wanting to use te standard 1812.

         

        free radius off.JPG

         

        and i couldnt create clients or users without receiving this error,

         

        free radius  turn it on.JPG

         

         

         

        So i managed to get it responding to me via command line over SSH,

         

        I uninstalled radius-app using the web GUI, I enabled SSH for my admin account on the readynas, then gave the RN104 a reboot at this stage.

         

        once it was back up and running i used putty to create an ssh session with the readynas.

         

        login as: admin
        admin@<IP ADDRESS>'s password:
        
        Welcome to ReadyNASOS 6.4.2
        
        Last login: Tue Apr 12 10:05:00 2016 from <my computer name>
        admin@ReadyNAS:~$ cd /apps
        admin@ReadyNAS:/apps$ ls
        DO_NOT_DELETE
        admin@ReadyNAS:/apps$ sudo apt-get install radius-app
        Reading package lists... Done
        Building dependency tree
        Reading state information... Done
        The following NEW packages will be installed:
          radius-app
        0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 18 not upgraded.
        Need to get 0 B/259 kB of archives.
        After this operation, 1,968 kB of additional disk space will be used.
        debconf: delaying package configuration, since apt-utils is not installed
        Selecting previously unselected package radius-app.
        (Reading database ... 16576 files and directories currently installed.)
        Unpacking radius-app (from .../radius-app_1.1.1_all.deb) ...
        + set -e
        + wc+  -l
        grep -w radius-app /etc/frontview/apache/apps-https.conf
        + var1=1
        + echo 1
        1
        + [ 1 -lt 1 ]
        + [ -f /etc/sudoers ]
        + wc+  -l
        grep -w NOPASSWD /etc/sudoers
        + val2=1
        + [ 1 -lt 1 ]
        + exit 0
        Setting up radius-app (1.1.1) ...
        + set -e
        + sudo service freeradius restart
        [ ok ] Restarting freeradius (via systemctl): freeradius.service.
        + sudo service apache2 restart
        [ ok ] Restarting apache2 (via systemctl): apache2.service.
        + exit 0
        admin@ReadyNAS:/apps$

        This now shows that the free radius server is on in the web GUI page,

         

        free radius on.JPG

         

        It now lets me create users and clients in the web gui configuration page without displaying an error message demanding i turn on RADIUS server,

         

        so now to see if it actually works as it should.

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