Time for action – activating the NULL realm
Follow these steps to activate the NULL
realm:
- Edit the
proxy.conf
file under the FreeRADIUS configuration directory and change the following part from:#realm NULL { # authhost = radius.company.com:1600 # accthost = radius.company.com:1601 # secret = testing123 #}
to:
realm NULL { # authhost = radius.company.com:1600 # accthost = radius.company.com:1601 # secret = testing123 }
- Restart the FreeRADIUS server in debug mode and authenticate as alice. Observe the output of the FreeRADIUS server. The following should be part of the output:
[suffix] No '@' in User-Name = "alice", looking up realm NULL [suffix] Found realm "NULL" [suffix] Adding Stripped-User-Name = "alice" [suffix] Adding Realm = "NULL" [suffix] ...
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