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.
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.
and i couldnt create clients or users without receiving this error,
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,
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,
Well done getting free-radius to work! This is version 1.1.1 though, which is ancient and no longer maintained, The current stable version is 3.0.11. To me it highlights the issue that the list of Apps is long but mostly completely out of date. There seems to be very little development of new packages outside the efforts of rnxtras but we have to pay extra for those.
There are some users creating new versions of the outdated apps and posting them to our app store and the community. Be on the lookout for newer apps being released to address a lot of outdated apps.
Hi, I'm glad to hear that, but shouldn't the old and probably insecure version be removed? Beyond the AppsI have to say that I'm happy with my NAS and the support we get on OS6 from the team here. David
