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

Sat May 22 23:15:20 UTC 2010
Ian Forde <ianforde at gmail.com>

On Wed, 2010-05-19 at 09:09 +0100, Lars Hecking wrote:
> lhecking at users.sourceforge.net writes:
> > 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.
> 
>  Still broken in 5.5.

Yeah - just got slapped by it again on one of my boxes...

	-I