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How to Install and Setup Freeradius Server in Linux (RHEL/CentOS

7/8) Using 6 Easy Steps
June 6, 2020 by cyberithub

Table of Contents
Install and Setup FreeRadius Server in Linux
Step 1: Prerequisites
Step 2: Update Your System
Step 3: Install Freeradius packages
Step 4: Start Freeradius Service
Step 5: Check the Clients.conf and Users File
Step 6: Test Your Configuration

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In this article, I will take you through the steps to install and setup Freeradius Server in Linux
(RHEL/CentOS 7/8). The FreeRadius server project is the implementation of the Remote
Authentication Dial-In User Service (RADIUS) protocol used by many corporations and Internet
service providers to authenticate users connecting from remote locations.

The FreeRadius server daemon, radiusd , can use an LDAP directory in two different ways. First,
it can use LDAP as a data store for RADIUS attribute values. RADIUS attributes are defined by
the RADIUS protocol and should not be confused with LDAP attributes. The only similarity
between the two types of attributes is that both have names and are used to store values. The
FreeRadius administrator defines the mapping between RADIUS attributes and the LDAP
attributes used to represent them. Now we will go ahead and see how to setup freeradius
server in this section.
Install and Setup FreeRadius Server in Linux

Also Read: 17 Useful nc command examples in Linux (RedHat/CentOS 7/8)

Step 1: Prerequisites

a)You should have a Linux (RedHat/CentOS 7/8) Node.

b)You should have yum installed in your system. You can check Top 22 YUM Command
Examples in RedHat /CentOS 7 to know more about yum command.

b)You should have sudo access to run privileged commands. You can check How to add User
to Sudoers to know more about providing sudo access to the User.

Step 2: Update Your System

Sometimes it might happen that installation of new packages requires few of the dependencies
to be updated hence you need to first update your system packages to the latest version
before proceeding with the steps to setup freeradius Server. This can be performed by using
simple yum update -y command as shown below. This command might take sometime to
update all the packages depends on the last time you have updated your system. In this case
there are plenty of updates need to be installed so it took me few mins to complete the
System update.

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 [root@localhost ~]# yum update -y
Resolving Dependencies

--> Running transaction check

---> Package acl.x86_64 0:2.2.51-14.el7 will be updated

---> Package acl.x86_64 0:2.2.51-15.el7 will be an update

---> Package bash.x86_64 0:4.2.46-33.el7 will be updated

---> Package bash.x86_64 0:4.2.46-34.el7 will be an update

---> Package bind-export-libs.x86_64 32:9.11.4-9.P2.el7 will be updated

---> Package bind-export-libs.x86_64 32:9.11.4-16.P2.el7_8.6 will be an update

---> Package bind-libs-lite.x86_64 32:9.11.4-9.P2.el7 will be updated

---> Package bind-libs-lite.x86_64 32:9.11.4-16.P2.el7_8.6 will be an update

---> Package bind-license.noarch 32:9.11.4-9.P2.el7 will be updated

---> Package bind-license.noarch 32:9.11.4-16.P2.el7_8.6 will be an update

---> Package binutils.x86_64 0:2.27-41.base.el7_7.2 will be updated

---> Package binutils.x86_64 0:2.27-43.base.el7_8.1 will be setup freeradius server

---> Package centos-release.x86_64 0:7-7.1908.0.el7.centos will be updated

---> Package centos-release.x86_64 0:7-8.2003.0.el7.centos will be an update

---> Package cloud-init.x86_64 0:18.5-3.el7.centos will be updated

---> Package cloud-init.x86_64 0:18.5-6.el7.centos will be an update

---> Package cryptsetup-libs.x86_64 0:2.0.3-5.el7 will be updated

---> Package cryptsetup-libs.x86_64 0:2.0.3-6.el7 will be an update

---> Package curl.x86_64 0:7.29.0-54.el7_7.2 will be updated

---> Package curl.x86_64 0:7.29.0-57.el7 will be an update

---> Package device-mapper.x86_64 7:1.02.158-2.el7_7.2 will be updated

---> Package device-mapper.x86_64 7:1.02.164-7.el7_8.2 will be an update

Step 3: Install Freeradius packages

You can install freeradius packages using yum install command as shown below. Along with
freeradius package you require another set of packages like freeradius-utils, freeradius-mysql
and freeradius-perl packages. All of the packages can be installed in just one command as you
can see below.

[root@localhost ~]# yum install freeradius freeradius-utils freeradius-mysql freerad

Resolving Dependencies

--> Running transaction check

---> Package freeradius.x86_64 0:3.0.13-10.el7_6 will be installed

--> Processing Dependency: libtalloc.so.2(TALLOC_2.0.2)(64bit) for package: freeradi

--> Processing Dependency: /usr/bin/perl for package: freeradius-3.0.13-10.el7_6.x86
--> Processing Dependency: libtalloc.so.2()(64bit) for package: freeradius-3.0.13-10
--> Processing Dependency: libpcap.so.1()(64bit) for package: freeradius-3.0.13-10.e
--> Processing Dependency: libnaaeap.so.0()(64bit) for package: freeradius-3.0.13-10
---> Package freeradius-mysql.x86_64 0:3.0.13-10.el7_6 will be installed

---> Package freeradius-perl.x86_64 0:3.0.13-10.el7_6 will be installed

--> Processing Dependency: libperl.so()(64bit) for package: freeradius-perl-3.0.13-

---> Package freeradius-utils.x86_64 0:3.0.13-10.el7_6 will be installed

--> Processing Dependency: perl(Getopt::Long) for package: freeradius-utils-3.0.13-

--> Processing Dependency: perl(DBI) for package: freeradius-utils-3.0.13-10.el7_6.x
--> Running transaction check

---> Package libpcap.x86_64 14:1.5.3-12.el7 will be installed

---> Package libtalloc.x86_64 0:2.1.16-1.el7 will be installed

---> Package perl.x86_64 4:5.16.3-295.el7 will be installed

--> Processing Dependency: perl(Socket) >= 1.3 for package: 4:perl-5.16.3-295.el7.x8

--> Processing Dependency: perl(Scalar::Util) >= 1.10 for package: 4:perl-5.16.3-295
--> Processing Dependency: perl-macros for package: 4:perl-5.16.3-295.el7.x86_64

--> Processing Dependency: perl(threads::shared) for package: 4:perl-5.16.3-295.el7

--> Processing Dependency: perl(threads) for package: 4:perl-5.16.3-295.el7.x86_64

--> Processing Dependency: perl(constant) for package: 4:perl-5.16.3-295.el7.x86_64

--> Processing Dependency: perl(Time::Local) for package: 4:perl-5.16.3-295.el7.x86_

--> Processing Dependency: perl(Time::HiRes) for package: 4:perl-5.16.3-295.el7.x86_
--> Processing Dependency: perl(Storable) for package: 4:perl-5.16.3-295.el7.x86_64

--> Processing Dependency: perl(Socket) for package: 4:perl-5.16.3-295.el7.x86_64

--> Processing Dependency: perl(Scalar::Util) for package: 4:perl-5.16.3-295.el7.x86

--> Processing Dependency: perl(Pod::Simple::XHTML) for package: 4:perl-5.16.3-295.e
--> Processing Dependency: perl(Pod::Simple::Search) for package: 4:perl-5.16.3-295
--> Processing Dependency: tncfhh = 0.8.3 for package: tncfhh-libs-0.8.3-16.el7.x86_
--> Processing Dependency: boost-thread for package: tncfhh-libs-0.8.3-16.el7.x86_64
--> Processing Dependency: boost-system for package: tncfhh-libs-0.8.3-16.el7.x86_64
--> Processing Dependency: libxerces-c-3.1.so()(64bit) for package: tncfhh-libs-0.8
--> Processing Dependency: libtncutil.so.0()(64bit) for package: tncfhh-libs-0.8.3-
--> Processing Dependency: liblog4cxx.so.10()(64bit) for package: tncfhh-libs-0.8.3
--> Processing Dependency: libboost_thread-mt.so.1.53.0()(64bit) for package: tncfhh
--> Processing Dependency: libboost_system-mt.so.1.53.0()(64bit) for package: tncfhh
--> Running transaction check

---> Package boost-system.x86_64 0:1.53.0-28.el7 will be installed

---> Package boost-thread.x86_64 0:1.53.0-28.el7 will be installed

---> Package log4cxx.x86_64 0:0.10.0-16.el7 will be installed

--> Processing Dependency: libaprutil-1.so.0()(64bit) for package: log4cxx-0.10.0-16

--> Processing Dependency: libapr-1.so.0()(64bit) for package: log4cxx-0.10.0-16.el7
---> Package perl-Carp.noarch 0:1.26-244.el7 will be installed

---> Package perl-Data-Dumper.x86_64 0:2.145-3.el7 will be installed

---> Package perl-Exporter.noarch 0:5.68-3.el7 will be installed

---> Package perl-File-Path.noarch 0:2.09-2.el7 will be installed

---> Package perl-File-Temp.noarch 0:0.23.01-3.el7 will be installed

---> Package perl-Filter.x86_64 0:1.49-3.el7 will be installed

---> Package perl-PathTools.x86_64 0:3.40-5.el7 will be installed

---> Package perl-PlRPC.noarch 0:0.2020-14.el7 will be installed

--> Processing Dependency: perl(Net::Daemon) >= 0.13 for package: perl-PlRPC-0.2020

---> Package perl-threads.x86_64 0:1.87-4.el7 will be installed

---> Package perl-threads-shared.x86_64 0:1.43-6.el7 will be installed

---> Package tncfhh.x86_64 0:0.8.3-16.el7 will be installed

---> Package tncfhh-utils.x86_64 0:0.8.3-16.el7 will be installed

---> Package xerces-c.x86_64 0:3.1.1-10.el7_7 will be installed

--> Running transaction check

---> Package apr.x86_64 0:1.4.8-5.el7 will be installed

---> Package apr-util.x86_64 0:1.5.2-6.el7 will be installed

---> Package perl-Encode.x86_64 0:2.51-7.el7 will be installed

---> Package perl-IO-Compress.noarch 0:2.061-2.el7 will be installed

--> Processing Dependency: perl(Compress::Raw::Zlib) >= 2.061 for package: perl-IO-

--> Processing Dependency: perl(Compress::Raw::Bzip2) >= 2.061 for package: perl-IO
---> Package perl-Net-Daemon.noarch 0:0.48-5.el7 will be installed

---> Package perl-Pod-Escapes.noarch 1:1.04-295.el7 will be installed

---> Package perl-Pod-Perldoc.noarch 0:3.20-4.el7 will be installed

--> Processing Dependency: perl(parent) for package: perl-Pod-Perldoc-3.20-4.el7.noa

--> Processing Dependency: perl(HTTP::Tiny) for package: perl-Pod-Perldoc-3.20-4.el7
---> Package perl-podlators.noarch 0:2.5.1-3.el7 will be installed

--> Running transaction check

---> Package perl-Compress-Raw-Bzip2.x86_64 0:2.061-3.el7 will be installed

---> Package perl-Compress-Raw-Zlib.x86_64 1:2.061-4.el7 will be installed

---> Package perl-HTTP-Tiny.noarch 0:0.033-3.el7 will be installed

---> Package perl-parent.noarch 1:0.225-244.el7 will be installed

--> Finished Dependency Resolution

Dependencies Resolved

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Package Arch Version Repository Size

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Installing:

freeradius x86_64 3.0.13-10.el7_6 base 1.1 M

freeradius-mysql x86_64 3.0.13-10.el7_6 base 90 k

freeradius-perl x86_64 3.0.13-10.el7_6 base 88 k

freeradius-utils x86_64 3.0.13-10.el7_6 base 222 k

Installing for dependencies:

apr x86_64 1.4.8-5.el7 base 103 k

apr-util x86_64 1.5.2-6.el7 base 92 k

boost-system x86_64 1.53.0-28.el7 base 40 k

boost-thread x86_64 1.53.0-28.el7 base 58 k

libpcap x86_64 14:1.5.3-12.el7 base 139 k

libtalloc x86_64 2.1.16-1.el7 base 33 k

log4cxx x86_64 0.10.0-16.el7 base 452 k

perl x86_64 4:5.16.3-295.el7 base 8.0 M

perl-Carp noarch 1.26-244.el7 base 19 k

perl-Compress-Raw-Bzip2 x86_64 2.061-3.el7 base 32 k

perl-Compress-Raw-Zlib x86_64 1:2.061-4.el7 base 57 k

perl-DBI x86_64 1.627-4.el7 base 802 k

perl-Data-Dumper x86_64 2.145-3.el7 base 47 k

perl-Encode x86_64 2.51-7.el7 base 1.5 M

perl-Exporter noarch 5.68-3.el7 base 28 k

perl-File-Path noarch 2.09-2.el7 base 26 k

perl-File-Temp noarch 0.23.01-3.el7 base 56 k

perl-Filter x86_64 1.49-3.el7 base 76 k

perl-Getopt-Long noarch 2.40-3.el7 base 56 k

perl-HTTP-Tiny noarch 0.033-3.el7 base 38 k

perl-IO-Compress noarch 2.061-2.el7 base 260 k

perl-Net-Daemon noarch 0.48-5.el7 base 51 k

perl-PathTools x86_64 3.40-5.el7 base 82 k

perl-PlRPC noarch 0.2020-14.el7 base 36 k

perl-Pod-Escapes noarch 1:1.04-295.el7 base 51 k

perl-Pod-Perldoc noarch 3.20-4.el7 base 87 k

perl-Pod-Simple noarch 1:3.28-4.el7 base 216 k

perl-Pod-Usage noarch 1.63-3.el7 base 27 k

perl-Scalar-List-Utils x86_64 1.27-248.el7 base 36 k

perl-Socket x86_64 2.010-5.el7 base 49 k

perl-Storable x86_64 2.45-3.el7 base 77 k

perl-Text-ParseWords noarch 3.29-4.el7 base 14 k

perl-Time-HiRes x86_64 4:1.9725-3.el7 base 45 k

perl-Time-Local noarch 1.2300-2.el7 base 24 k

perl-constant noarch 1.27-2.el7 base 19 k

perl-libs x86_64 4:5.16.3-295.el7 base 689 k

perl-macros x86_64 4:5.16.3-295.el7 base 44 k

perl-parent noarch 1:0.225-244.el7 base 12 k

perl-podlators noarch 2.5.1-3.el7 base 112 k

perl-threads x86_64 1.87-4.el7 base 49 k

perl-threads-shared x86_64 1.43-6.el7 base 39 k

tncfhh x86_64 0.8.3-16.el7 base 680 k

tncfhh-libs x86_64 0.8.3-16.el7 base 160 k

tncfhh-utils x86_64 0.8.3-16.el7 base 33 k

xerces-c x86_64 3.1.1-10.el7_7 updates 879 k

Transaction Summary

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Install 4 Packages (+45 Dependent packages)

Total download size: 17 M

Installed size: 52 M

Is this ok [y/d/N]: y

Downloading packages:

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(5/49): freeradius-3.0.13-10.el7_6.x86_64.rpm | 1.1 MB 00:00:00

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(17/49): perl-Data-Dumper-2.145-3.el7.x86_64.rpm | 47 kB 00:00:00

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(27/49): perl-PathTools-3.40-5.el7.x86_64.rpm | 82 kB 00:00:00

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(49/49): xerces-c-3.1.1-10.el7_7.x86_64.rpm | 879 kB 00:00:00

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Running transaction test

Transaction test succeeded

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Installed:

freeradius.x86_64 0:3.0.13-10.el7_6 freeradius-mysql.x86_64 0:3.0.13-10.el7_6 freera

Dependency Installed:

apr.x86_64 0:1.4.8-5.el7 apr-util.x86_64 0:1.5.2-6.el7 boost-system.x86_64 0:1.53.0

boost-thread.x86_64 0:1.53.0-28.el7 libpcap.x86_64 14:1.5.3-12.el7 libtalloc.x86_64
 log4cxx.x86_64 0:0.10.0-16.el7 perl.x86_64 4:5.16.3-295.el7 perl-Carp.noarch 0:1.26
perl-Compress-Raw-Bzip2.x86_64 0:2.061-3.el7 perl-Compress-Raw-Zlib.x86_64 1:2.061-4
perl-Data-Dumper.x86_64 0:2.145-3.el7 setup freeradius server-x86_64 0:2.51-7.el7 pe
perl-File-Path.noarch 0:2.09-2.el7 perl-File-Temp.noarch 0:0.23.01-3.el7 perl-Filte
perl-Getopt-Long.noarch 0:2.40-3.el7 setup freeradius server.noarch 0:0.033-3.el7 se
perl-Net-Daemon.noarch 0:0.48-5.el7 perl-PathTools.x86_64 0:3.40-5.el7 perl-PlRPC.no
perl-Pod-Escapes.noarch 1:1.04-295.el7 perl-Pod-Perldoc.noarch 0:3.20-4.el7 perl-Pod
perl-Pod-Usage.noarch 0:1.63-3.el7 setup freeradius server.x86_64 0:1.27-248.el7 pe
perl-Storable.x86_64 0:2.45-3.el7 perl-Text-setup freeradius server 0:3.29-4.el7 pe
perl-Time-Local.noarch 0:1.2300-2.el7 perl-constant.noarch 0:1.27-2.el7 setup frerad
perl-macros.x86_64 4:5.16.3-295.el7 perl-parent.noarch 1:0.225-244.el7 perl-podlato
perl-threads.x86_64 0:1.87-4.el7 perl-threads-shared.x86_64 0:1.43-6.el7 tncfhh.x86_
tncfhh-libs.x86_64 0:0.8.3-16.el7 tncfhh-utils.x86_64 0:0.8.3-16.el7 xerces-c.x86_64

Complete!

Step 4: Start Freeradius Service

After installation of freeradius packages if you check the radiusd service then you can see this
service in inactive state. This service will not start by default hence you need to manually start
it.

[root@localhost ~]# service radiusd status

Redirecting to /bin/systemctl status radiusd.service

● radiusd.service - FreeRADIUS high performance RADIUS server.

Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/radiusd.service; disabled; vendor preset: di

Active: inactive (dead)

To start radiusd service, you can either use our traditional service radiusd start command or
you can use systemctl start radiusd command. Both should work fine.

[root@localhost ~]# service radiusd start

Redirecting to /bin/systemctl start radiusd.service

Now if you check the status again you can see the service is started and running fine.

[root@localhost ~]# service radiusd status

Redirecting to /bin/systemctl status radiusd.service

● radiusd.service - FreeRADIUS high performance RADIUS server.

Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/radiusd.service; disabled; vendor preset: di

Active: active (running) since Tue 2020-06-02 22:19:05 UTC; 2s ago

Process: 27273 ExecStart=/usr/sbin/radiusd -d /etc/raddb (code=exited, status=0/SUCC

 Process: 27269 ExecStartPre=/usr/sbin/radiusd -C (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)

Process: 27265 ExecStartPre=/bin/chown -R radiusd.radiusd /var/run/radiusd (code=exi

Main PID: 27276 (radiusd)

Tasks: 6

Memory: 8.4M

CGroup: /system.slice/radiusd.service

└─27276 /usr/sbin/radiusd -d /etc/raddb

Jun 02 22:19:04 ip-172-31-9-24.us-west-2.compute.internal systemd[1]: Starting FreeR

Jun 02 22:19:05 ip-172-31-9-24.us-west-2.compute.internal systemd[1]: Started FreeRA

NOTE:

Please note that sometimes service does not start due to SELinux policy or Firewall
rules. It might block the port used by Freeradius service or might block the service
itself. Hence it is recommended to check your SELinux policy and firewall rules
whenever service failed to start.

Step 5: Check the Clients.conf and Users File

Now we need to setup the client in /etc/raddb/clients.conf file. Here we are using default
client localhost in our freeradius server setup.

[root@localhost ~]# vi /etc/raddb/clients.conf

client localhost {

ipaddr = 127.0.0.1

secret = testing123

require_message_authenticator = no

nas_type = other

You can use default bob user to setup freeradius server as shown below. You can setup your
User and cleartext-Password in /etc/raddb/users.

[root@localhost ~]# vi /etc/raddb/users

“bob” Cleartext-Password := “password”

Framed-IP-Address = 192.168.10.10,

Reply-Message = “Hello, %{User-Name}”

Now you need to restart your service for the changes to reflect.
 [root@localhost ~]# systemctl restart radiusd

Step 6: Test Your Configuration

Once setup is completed you can actually test the setup by using below radtest command.
Here we are trying authenticate to RADIUS Server through User Bob and by using password
hello as you can see below. Once the authentication went successful you will receive Accept-
Accept message. This shows that you have completed the steps to setup freeradius server.

[root@localhost ~]# radtest bob hello 127.0.0.1 100 testing123

Sent Access-Request Id 56 from 0.0.0.0:41585 to 127.0.0.1:1812 length 73

User-Name = "bob"

User-Password = "hello"

NAS-IP-Address = 172.31.9.24

NAS-Port = 100

Message-Authenticator = 0x00

Cleartext-Password = "hello"

Received Access-Accept Id 56 from 127.0.0.1:1812 to 0.0.0.0:0 length 32

Reply-Message = "Hello, bob"

bob: User-name

hello: User-Password

127.0.0.1: Server Hostname or IP Address

100: NAS Port

testing123: Cleartext-Password

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4 thoughts on “How to Install and Setup Freeradius Server in Linux

(RHEL/CentOS 7/8) Using 6 Easy Steps”

leszek
september 30, 2020 at 9:00 pm

Hi. Thanks for the tutorial.

Do you know how to configure Freeradius 3 + EAP-TLS?

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ken
november 30, 2021 at 9:03 am

fyi step 5 has a typo.

"/etc/raddb/client.conf " should be "/etc/raddb/clients.conf" instead

 Reply

cyberithub
december 5, 2021 at 3:08 pm

Hi Ken,

Thanks for noticing this typo. It stands corrected now.

Reply

dharmbir singh
may 8, 2022 at 6:42 pm

After installation on public IP, unnecessary traffic problem with the freeradius server,

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