NAME

radiusctl — control the RADIUS protocol daemon

SYNOPSIS

DESCRIPTION

The radiusctl utility controls the radiusd(8) daemon.

The following commands are available:

test hostname radius_secret user_name [options]

Sends a RADIUS authentication request packet and shows the result. The request is for the user specified by user_name and sent to the RADIUS server specified by hostname. radius_secret is the shared secret with the server. The options are as follows:

interval seconds

Specifies how many seconds to wait before resending a packet. The default is 2.

maxwait seconds

Specifies the maximum amount of time to wait for a valid reply packet. The default is 8.

method method

Use method for authentication. It can be either pap, chap, or mschapv2. If this option is omitted, pap is used.

nas-port nas-port

Specify an integer value for the NAS-Port attribute in the packet. If this option is omitted, 0 is used.

password password

Use password for user_name.

port port

Use port when sending a packet to hostname. If the port is omitted, the default port number 1812 is used.

tries number

Specifies the number of packets to try sending. The default is 3.

SEE ALSO

radiusd(8)