How to configure freeradius with local users
OS: Debian9 Package: Freeradius 3.0 Hostname: srv1 This is step by step how to configure freeradius with local users (/etc/passwd) In this scenario, I want to create 100 users with a password and no shell login to the system capability that can be done with the following commands: for i in `seq 1 1 100` do useradd user$i echo -e "P@ssw0rd\nP@ssw0rd" | passwd user$i done common-auth-radius is for radius users Edit like below: And then configure no login with PAM pam_list_file in the /etc/pam.d/common-auth to limit login to the system Only users in the /etc/loginusers can login to the system Create a file loginusers in the /etc/ Because FreeRADIUS 3 no longer accepts "Auth-Type := System". It's by default use unix pasword so we want to just configure for client use like belo w: /etc/init.d/freeradius restart Testing in srv2, we need to install freeradius-utils for testing purpose, use radtest ...