Time for action – installing FreeRADIUS

Pre-build FreeRADIUS packages can be installed by using the following command on each distribution respectively:

• CentOS

  #> yum install freeradius2 freeradius2-utils
  

• SUSE

  #> zypper in freeradius-server freeradius-server-utils freeradius-server-doc
  

• Ubuntu

  $> sudo apt-get install freeradius
  

What just happened?

We installed the pre-build FreeRADIUS packages supplied for our Linux distribution to have a basic working RADIUS server installation.

Advantages

Using the pre-build FreeRADIUS package has the following advantages:

• Resolving dependencies is automatically taken care of. This includes taking care of future security updates, keeping track of all the optional packages that were required to be installed with our package, and also ensuring the correct version of a dependency package is installed.
• The Linux distributor's QA testing ensures properly working software.
• Updates are taken care of by the Linux distributor.
• Distribution-specific...