Re: [Help-gnu-radius] RADIUS-MySQL problem

[Georges Arnould]

I believe that I remember that :

- When you connect MySQL with "localhost", it tries to use the socket 
(wherever it is located)
- When you connect it with "127.0.0.1", it uses the network (lo) layer.

Georges

scsi valli a écrit :
> Hi,
>
> I am trying to use radauth, but I get an Authentication error-
> Auth.error: [MYSQL] cannot connecto to localhost as root: Can't
> connect to local MySQL server through socket
> '/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock' (2)
>
> I have MySQL running with --user=root. I tried running with other user
> names, and changing in the sqlserver to have the same user name, but
> still get a similar error as above.
>
> In my MySQL database, I have a RADIUS database, with the passwd and
> attrib tables populated. The passwd table has user name and password,
> while the attrib table has values for NAS-IP-Address and NAS-IP-Port
> set to 127.0.0.1 and 1812 respectively.
>
> The MySQL is running on port 3036, and I have the port in sqlserver
> set to 3036, with servername as localhost.
>
> I am doubting that something is wrong with the users file. It just
> contains the Default entry
> DEFAULT Auth-Type = SQL,
> Simultaneous-Use = 1
> Service-Type = Framed-User,
> Framed-Protocol = PPP
>
> Do I have to add an entry here for user 'radius' as well??
>
> Please let me know how to overcome the problem.
>
> Thanks in advance
> shashi.
>
>
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