Installing a Radius Server with MySQL on Mac OS X 10.7 – Mountain Lion

This is a bit of a pain but I got it running. Some

basics before you start. Links are at the

bottom for installation tips.

• mountain Lion already has a version installed – but you might need to reinstall
• make sure mySQL is pre-installed AND IN YOUR PATH (critical)
  • use this to see a positive confirmation that it can see mysql
    ./configure | grep mysql_config
  • it installs it in YOUR directory by default – remember there is a version of radiusd already installed already on you Mac
    • /usr/local/sbin/radiusd (run dir)
    • /usr/local/etc/raddb/ (configure dir)
  • once I got a user installed into the user table all went well as long as I had the secret correct.
• Here are my heros in getting this all installed. Thank you.
  • http://www.serveradminblog.com/2011/03/freeradius-install-howto-3/
  • http://andrewpakpahan.blogspot.ca/2012/08/installing-and-configuring-freeradius.html
  • http://wiki.freeradius.org/guide/FAQ
  • basics of radius (old article but good) http://www.keller.com/wifi/CNIT107HW7.html
  • reason for doing this – CoovaAP project where you trade your facebook like for wifi access. http://www.coova.org/CoovaAP