[CentOS] FreeRadius version

Tue Mar 21 02:12:47 UTC 2006
Robert Moskowitz <rgm at htt-consult.com>

At 03:14 PM 3/20/2006, Jim Perrin wrote:
>On 3/20/06, Robert Moskowitz <rgm at htt-consult.com> wrote:
> > It seems to me that the ver of FreeRadius is 1.0.1:
> >
> > yum list | grep "radius"
> > freeradius.i386                          1.0.1-3.RHEL4
> > installed
> > freeradius-mysql.i386                    1.0.1-3.RHEL4          base
> >
> > freeradius-postgresql.i386               1.0.1-3.RHEL4          base
> >
> > freeradius-unixODBC.i386                 1.0.1-3.RHEL4          base
> >
> > According to freeradius.org, this was released 8/17/04 and 1.1.0 was
> > released 1/12/06
> >
> > Why is the distributed version so far behind?
>
>For centos, the answer is "Because that's what upstream provides".
>For upstream, no idea what their reasoning is.
>Keep in mind that the idea isn't to have the latest&greatest, but to
>have a stable solution.

Well, OK.  1.1.0 just came out, everything until then was patches to 1.0 ...

Just got off the phone with DeKok (work with him at the IETF, when he 
comes), and he helped me along.  The upstream does not include 
user_admin tool.

Got enough working for what I need this week.




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