Time for action – incorporating a MySQL database in FreeRADIUS
We assume that MySQL is not yet installed on the system where you have FreeRADIUS deployed. We will first install and then configure MySQL in order for it to be usable to FreeRADIUS.
Installing MySQL
Ensure that MySQL server is installed on your Linux machine. The following table can be used as a guideline to install MySQL on each of the three distributions discussed in this book:
|
Distribution |
Command to install MySQL server |
|---|---|
|
CentOS |
yum install mysql-server
|
|
SUSE |
zypper install mysql
|
|
Ubuntu |
sudo apt-get install mysql-server
|
Note
MySQL server has a user called root, which by default does not have any password on the local machine. You are strongly encouraged to supply a password ...
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