Testing¶

Install a RADIUS server (FreeRADIUS)¶

Install FreeRADIUS per directions for your OS. On mac, you can install it via brew:

brew install freeradius-server

Setup a user¶

Create a user for testing bu adding one to the users config file (raddb/users). The actual path varies. On a Mac with FreeRADIUS 3.0.12, the file is at /usr/local/Cellar/freeradius-server/3.0.12/etc/raddb/.

I usually just use the example that is suggested in the FreeRADIUS docs:

bob    Cleartext-Password := "hello" 
       Reply-Message := "Hello, %{User-Name}" 

Test your RADIUS server with radtest¶

Start Free in debugging mode:

radiusd -X

Next, run radtest against the server:

radtest bob hello localhost 0 testing123

If successful, you should see a message ending with:

Received Access-Accept Id 238 from 127.0.0.1:1812 to 0.0.0.0:0 length 32
    Reply-Message = "Hello, bob" 

Setup Splunk¶

Install Splunk and the RADIUS authentication app.