clients5

Overview

The clients file resides in the radius database directory, by default /etc/raddb. It contains a list of RADIUS clients. Every line starting with a hash sign ('#') is treated as comment and ignored.

Each line of the file contains two white-space delimited fields.

client hostname

The RADIUS clients hostname This may be a plain hostname, or a dotted-quad IP address.

secret

This is the so-called "shared secret" that is held between a RADIUS server and client. It is used to encrypt passwords in RADIUS packets, and also for authentication. You need to configure the same secret on the client (terminal server) as in this file.

The clients file is read by radiusd on startup only.

Files

/etc/raddb/clients