I'm trying to use freeradius with dhcp on debian 12. I'm relaying DHCP packets from the router.
- FR setup with DHCP listen port 67 : freeradius -X works just fine, as expected. But systemd cannot start the service. And unfortunately I cannot find any related log to look into. only I can see there:
root@rpi:~# journalctl -xeu freeradius.service
Jul 26 13:09:41 rpi freeradius[544893]: rlm_sql (sql): Adding client ubiqap (UbiQ_AP) to global clients list
Jul 26 13:09:41 rpi freeradius[544893]: rlm_sql (192.168.220.55): Client "UbiQ_AP" (sql) added
Jul 26 13:09:41 rpi freeradius[544893]: rlm_sql (sql): Released connection (0)
Jul 26 13:09:41 rpi freeradius[544893]: rlm_detail (auth_log): 'User-Password' suppressed, will not appear in detail output
Jul 26 13:09:41 rpi freeradius[544893]: rlm_mschap (mschap): using internal authentication
Jul 26 13:09:41 rpi freeradius[544893]: tls: Using cached TLS configuration from previous invocation
Jul 26 13:09:41 rpi freeradius[544893]: tls: Using cached TLS configuration from previous invocation
Jul 26 13:09:41 rpi freeradius[544893]: Compiling dhcp DHCP-Discover for attr DHCP-Message-Type
Jul 26 13:09:41 rpi freeradius[544893]: Compiling dhcp DHCP-Request for attr DHCP-Message-Type
Jul 26 13:09:41 rpi freeradius[544893]: Compiling dhcp DHCP-Decline for attr DHCP-Message-Type
Jul 26 13:09:41 rpi freeradius[544893]: Compiling dhcp DHCP-Inform for attr DHCP-Message-Type
Jul 26 13:09:41 rpi freeradius[544893]: Compiling dhcp DHCP-Release for attr DHCP-Message-Type
Jul 26 13:09:41 rpi freeradius[544893]: Compiling dhcp DHCP-Lease-Query for attr DHCP-Message-Type
Jul 26 13:09:41 rpi freeradius[544893]: Compiling Auth-Type PAP for attr Auth-Type
Jul 26 13:09:41 rpi freeradius[544893]: Compiling Auth-Type CHAP for attr Auth-Type
Jul 26 13:09:41 rpi freeradius[544893]: Compiling Auth-Type MS-CHAP for attr Auth-Type
Jul 26 13:09:41 rpi freeradius[544893]: Ignoring "ldap" (see raddb/mods-available/README.rst)
Jul 26 13:09:41 rpi freeradius[544893]: Compiling Post-Auth-Type REJECT for attr Post-Auth-Type
Jul 26 13:09:41 rpi freeradius[544893]: Compiling Auth-Type PAP for attr Auth-Type
Jul 26 13:09:41 rpi freeradius[544893]: Compiling Auth-Type CHAP for attr Auth-Type
Jul 26 13:09:41 rpi freeradius[544893]: Compiling Auth-Type MS-CHAP for attr Auth-Type
Jul 26 13:09:41 rpi freeradius[544893]: Compiling Autz-Type New-TLS-Connection for attr Autz-Type
Jul 26 13:09:41 rpi freeradius[544893]: Compiling Post-Auth-Type REJECT for attr Post-Auth-Type
Jul 26 13:09:41 rpi freeradius[544893]: Compiling Post-Auth-Type Challenge for attr Post-Auth-Type
Jul 26 13:09:41 rpi freeradius[544893]: Compiling Post-Auth-Type Client-Lost for attr Post-Auth-Type
Jul 26 13:09:41 rpi freeradius[544893]: radiusd: #### Skipping IP addresses and Ports ####
Jul 26 13:09:41 rpi freeradius[544893]: Configuration appears to be OK
Jul 26 13:09:42 rpi systemd[1]: freeradius.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
░░ Subject: Unit process exited
░░ Defined-By: systemd
░░ Support: https://www.debian.org/support
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░░ An ExecStart= process belonging to unit freeradius.service has exited.
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░░ The process' exit code is 'exited' and its exit status is 1.
Jul 26 13:09:42 rpi systemd[1]: freeradius.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
░░ Subject: Unit failed
░░ Defined-By: systemd
░░ Support: https://www.debian.org/support
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░░ The unit freeradius.service has entered the 'failed' state with result 'exit-code'.
Jul 26 13:09:42 rpi systemd[1]: Failed to start freeradius.service - FreeRADIUS multi-protocol policy server.
░░ Subject: A start job for unit freeradius.service has failed
░░ Defined-By: systemd
░░ Support: https://www.debian.org/support
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░░ A start job for unit freeradius.service has finished with a failure.
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░░ The job identifier is 4265304 and the job result is failed.
- I setup DHCP listen port as non-standard 6700, systemctl can start FR with no problem.
Hopefully its some user-permission issue but cannot find the right path to proceed.
I tried with root@rpi:~# setcap cap_net_admin=ei /usr/sbin/freeradius
but that didn't make any difference.