Basic Configuration Howto. Always start with the "default" configuration. It will work everywhere, and do almost everything you need. The only change you will need to make is to define users and passwords. Making a lot of changes to the configuration files is the best way to break the server. Don't do that.
Authorize: With this block, we instruct the server to check what authentication method is used in the radius packet. It will check “pap” and “chap” methods. When it finds a match, it uses “file” module to look for end users in “users” file. Authenticate: We add the authentication modules here.
radiusd(8) FreeRADIUS Daemon radiusd(8) NAME radiusd - Authentication, Authorization and Accounting server SYNOPSIS radiusd [-C] [-d config_directory] [-f] [-i ip-address] [-n name] [-p port] [-s] [-v] [-x] [-X] DESCRIPTION FreeRADIUS is a high-performance and highly configurable RADIUS server.