How to setup Freeradius (use with CoovaChilli)

You can download Freeradius from here http://freeradius.org/ and CoovaChilli from github here https://github.com/coova/coova-chilli official website of CoovaChilli

Package to build the install:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install build-essential libssl-dev libcurl4-gnutls-dev libexpat1-dev gettext unzip git curl htop libmysqlclient-dev libperl-dev libtalloc-dev linux-headers-server devscripts debhelper gengetopt libtool automake

install of Freeradius:

tar -xvpzf freeradius-server-3.0.10.tar.gz
cd freeradius-server-3.0.10
./configure

make
sudo make install
sudo ldconfig

It make the install in folder /usr/local/etc/raddb need to be root for go inside (sudo su)

Create softlink for modules that you want to add:

sudo su
cd /usr/local/etc/raddb
cd mods-enabled/
ln -s ../mods-available/sql ./
cd ..

Edit with vim the file mods-available/sql and put information about your mysql database (http://wiki.freeradius.org/guide/SQL-HOWTO)

driver = "rlm_sql_mysql"

...

dialect = "mysql"

...

# Connection info:
#
server = "localhost"
port = 3306

# Database table configuration for everything except Oracle

......

# Set to 'yes' to read radius clients from the database ('nas' table)
# Clients will ONLY be read on server startup.
read_clients = yes

Enable SQL configuration in the default enabled site sites-available/default

Import the MySQL schema from /mods-config/sql/main/mysql/schema.sql

mysql -u root -p database < mods-config/sql/main/mysql/schema.sql

For openssl problem: freeradius-refusing-to-start-with-libssl

For solve can set allow_vulnerable_openssl = yes in radiusd.conf

To test freeradius

radiusd -Xx

To test authentication

radtest {username} {password} {hostname} 10 {radius_secret}

FreeRADIUS has a start-up script. The following will ensure automatic start-up between reboots

cp /usr/local/sbin/rc.radiusd /etc/init.d/radiusd
update-rc.d radiusd start 99 2 3 4 5 . stop 20 0 1 6 .

Config for work with CoovaChilli

In site-enabled edit the file default and in authorize section activate sql and add noresetcounter

#       Autz-Type Status-Server {
#
#       }
        noresetcounter
}

Simultaneous-use

Expiration

Max-All-Session

CoovaChilli-Bandwidth-Max-Down

For can use coova chilli attribute you need to copy in /usr/local/share/freeradius the CoovaChilli.dictionary (available in doc folder on github of coova) and add the line in dictionary: