This guide is to help you install FreeRADIUS and Daloradius on Ubuntu 20.04/18.04/16.04 LTS servers. Our recent guide on FreeRADIUS was for how to Install FreeRADIUS and Daloradius on CentOS 7 and RHEL 7. FreeRADIUS is an open source, high-performance, modular, scalable and feature-rich RADIUS server. It ships with both server and radius client, development libraries and numerous additional RADIUS related utilities.
FreeRADIUS supports request proxying, with fail-over and load balancing, as well as the ability to access many types of back-end databases.
RADIUS, which stands for “Remote Authentication Dial-In User Service“, is a network protocol used for remote user authentication and accounting. It provides AAA services; namely Authorization, Authentication, and Accounting.
Features of FreeRADIUS
- Flexible Configuration through a wide range of methods to select user configurations.
- Complete support for RFC 2865 and RFC 2866 attributes.
- EAP with EAP-MD5, EAP-SIM, EAP-TLS, EAP-TTLS, EAP-PEAP, and Cisco LEAP EAP sub-types
- Vendor Specific Attributes for almost one hundred vendors, including BinTec, Foundry, Cisco, Juniper, Lucent/Ascend, HP ProCurve, Microsoft, USR/3Com, Acc/Newbridge and many more.
What is daloRADIUS?
On the other side, daloRADIUS is an advanced RADIUS web management platform written in PHP and JavaScript. It is mainly aimed at managing Hotspots and general-purpose ISP deployments powered by FreeRADIUS server. Some good features of daloRADIUS include:
- Has a database abstraction layer with support for many database systems – MySQL, SQLite, PostgreSQL, MsSQL and Oracle
- Advanced user management
- Powerful graphical reporting and accounting
- Integrates with GoogleMaps for geo-location
- Has a billing engine
How to install FreeRADIUS and Daloradius on Ubuntu 20.04/18.04/16.04
Start by updating your system packages to the latest version:
sudo apt update sudo apt -y upgrade
Reboot system after doing an upgrade
sudo reboot
Once the system is up, begin the installation FreeRADIUS and Daloradius on your Ubuntu 18.04 / Ubuntu 16.04 system.
Step 1: Install Apache Web Server and PHP
Daloradius will require php and Apache web server to be installed on the host system.
Installing Apache on Ubuntu:
Install Apache web server by running:
sudo apt -y install apache2
For installation of PHP on Ubuntu 18.04 and Ubuntu 16.04, run:
sudo apt -y install php libapache2-mod-php php-{gd,common,mail,mail-mime,mysql,pear,db,mbstring,xml,curl}
Check the version of php installed:
$ php -v
PHP 7.2.19-0ubuntu0.18.04.2 (cli) (built: Aug 12 2019 19:34:28) ( NTS )
Copyright (c) 1997-2018 The PHP Group
Zend Engine v3.2.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2018 Zend Technologies
with Zend OPcache v7.2.19-0ubuntu0.18.04.2, Copyright (c) 1999-2018, by Zend Technologies
Step 2: Install MariaDB and Create a database
Next is to install the MariaDB server and create a database for daloRADIUS. We have a comprehensive guide for installing MariaDB 10.x on Ubuntu
Install MariaDB 10.x on Ubuntu 18.04 and CentOS 7
For Ubuntu 20.04, just run:
sudo apt update
sudo apt install mariadb-server
sudo mysql_secure_installationOnce installed and running, create a database for FreeRADIUS, this will be used at a later stage.
database name: radius database user: radius database user password: [email protected]
If you have a dedicated database server, replace localhost with the IP of source FreeRADIUS Server.
$ sudo mysql -u root -p CREATE DATABASE radius; GRANT ALL ON radius.* TO [email protected] IDENTIFIED BY "[email protected]"; FLUSH PRIVILEGES; QUIT
Step 3: Install and Configure FreeRADIUS on Ubuntu 20.04/18.04/16.04
You can view versions of freeradius available in your Ubuntu:
$ sudo apt policy freeradius
freeradius:
Installed: (none)
Candidate: 3.0.20+dfsg-3build1
Version table:
3.0.20+dfsg-3build1 500
500 http://nova.clouds.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal/main amd64 PackagesInstall FreeRadius packages from official Ubuntu APT repository with the commands below:
sudo apt -y install freeradius freeradius-mysql freeradius-utilsAmong the packages installed are mysql module and utils package.
Ubuntu 16.04
For Ubuntu 16.04 system, version 2.x is the package available from the official repository. To install version 3.0, add the Personal Package Archive (PPA) for the version 3 of FreeRADIUS.
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:freeradius/stable-3.0 sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install freeradius freeradius-mysql freeradius-utils
Import the freeradius MySQL database scheme:
sudo su - mysql -u root -p radius < /etc/freeradius/3.0/mods-config/sql/main/mysql/schema.sql
Check tables created:
$ sudo mysql -u root -p -e "use radius;show tables;" Enter password: +------------------+ | Tables_in_radius | +------------------+ | nas | | radacct | | radcheck | | radgroupcheck | | radgroupreply | | radpostauth | | radreply | | radusergroup | +------------------+
Create a soft link for sql module under /etc/freeradius/3.0/mods-enabled/
sudo ln -s /etc/freeradius/3.0/mods-available/sql /etc/freeradius/3.0/mods-enabled/
Configure SQL module and change the database connection parameters to suit your environment.
sudo vim /etc/freeradius/3.0/mods-enabled/sql
Your sql section should look similar to below.
sql {
driver = "rlm_sql_mysql"
dialect = "mysql"
# Connection info:
server = "localhost"
port = 3306
login = "radius"
password = "[email protected]"
# Database table configuration for everything except Oracle
radius_db = "radius"
}
# Set to ‘yes’ to read radius clients from the database (‘nas’ table)
# Clients will ONLY be read on server startup.
read_clients = yes
# Table to keep radius client info
client_table = "nas"
Then change group right of /etc/freeradius/3.0/mods-enabled/sql
sudo chgrp -h freerad /etc/freeradius/3.0/mods-available/sql sudo chown -R freerad:freerad /etc/freeradius/3.0/mods-enabled/sql
Restart freeradius service:
sudo systemctl restart freeradius.service
Install and Configure Daloradius on Ubuntu 20.04/18.04/16.04
We need to install Daloradius to get FreeRADIUS web administration interface.
sudo apt -y install wget unzip
wget https://github.com/lirantal/daloradius/archive/master.zip
unzip master.zip
mv daloradius-master daloradiusChange directory for configuration:
cd daloradiusConfiguring daloradius
- Now import Daloradius mysql tables
sudo mysql -u root -p radius < contrib/db/fr2-mysql-daloradius-and-freeradius.sql
sudo mysql -u root -p radius < contrib/db/mysql-daloradius.sql- Configure daloRADIUS database connection details:
cd ..
sudo mv daloradius /var/www/html/Then change permissions for http folder and set the right permissions for the daloradius configuration file.
sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/html/daloradius/
sudo chmod 664 /var/www/html/daloradius/library/daloradius.conf.phpYou should now modify the filedaloradius.conf.php to adjust the MySQL database information. Open the daloradius.conf.php and add the database username, password and db name.
sudo vim /var/www/html/daloradius/library/daloradius.conf.phpEspecially relevant variables to configure are:
$configValues['CONFIG_DB_HOST'] = 'localhost'; $configValues['CONFIG_DB_PORT'] = '3306'; $configValues['CONFIG_DB_USER'] = 'radius'; $configValues['CONFIG_DB_PASS'] = '[email protected]'; $configValues['CONFIG_DB_NAME'] = 'radius';
To be sure everything works, restart freeradius and apache2
sudo systemctl restart freeradius.service apache2
Open Admin link using your system IP address or domain name:
http://ip-address/daloradius/login.php
A page like this will appear:
Default login details are:
Username: administrator Password: radius
Change the password after first login.
Read more on daloRADIUS Configurations
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- install FreeRADIUS and Daloradius on Ubuntu 20.04/18.04
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Installation on other operating systems.
Install FreeRADIUS and Daloradius on CentOS 8 / RHEL 8
Install FreeRADIUS & daloRADIUS on CentOS 7
