[CentOS] Bug in freeradius 1.1.3-1.5.el5_4 rpm

Mon Nov 2 10:19:38 UTC 2009
lhecking at users.sourceforge.net <lhecking at users.sourceforge.net>

Ian Forde writes:
> I upgraded one of my servers to CentOS 5.4 today.  The freeradius
> service (radiusd) didn't start up due to permissions errors.  I tracked
> it to the permissions on the /etc/raddb/certs/ directory being set to
> 640 rather than 750, so the radius user couldn't enter the directory.
> In the spec file from the source rpm, line 200 should read:
> 
> %attr(750,root,radiusd) %config (noreplace) /etc/raddb/certs
> 
> rather than the current:
> 
> %attr(640,root,radiusd) %config (noreplace) /etc/raddb/certs
> 
> Note that this bug also exists in the the 1.1.3-1.4.el5 version that's
> part of the CentOS 5.4 release.  I'm not sure if it exists upstream
> though, but there it is... ;)
 
 Thanks for the heads-up. This bug was already in 5.3, but it looks like it
 was never reported.