Information about the package, freeradius, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The freeradius package is designed for, High-performance and highly configurable free RADIUS server.
Package Name:
freeradius
Summary:
High-performance and highly configurable free RADIUS server
Description:
The FreeRADIUS Server Project is a high performance and highly configurable GPL'd free RADIUS server. The server is similar in some respects to Livingston's 2.0 server. While FreeRADIUS started as a variant of the Cistron RADIUS server, they don't share a lot in common any more. It now has many more features than Cistron or Livingston, and is much more configurable. FreeRADIUS is an Internet authentication daemon, which implements the RADIUS protocol, as defined in RFC 2865 (and others). It allows Network Access Servers (NAS boxes) to perform authentication for dial-up users. There are also RADIUS clients available for Web servers, firewalls, Unix logins, and more. Using RADIUS allows authentication and authorization for a network to be centralized, and minimizes the amount of re-configuration which has to be done when adding or deleting new users.
Architecture:
x86_64
Version:
2.2.6
Release:
7.el6_9
Size:
1.5 M
Repository:
updates
From Repository:
Licence:
GPLv2+ and LGPLv2+
Control the freeradius package with the following handy commands outlined below.
yum install freeradius
This command will install freeradius on the server.
yum remove freeradius
This command will un-install freeradius on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove freeradius, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y remove freeradius
This command will un-install freeradius on the server. When you run this command with th e -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove freeradius when using the -y flag.
yum update freeradius
This command will update freeradius to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove freeradius, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y update freeradius
This command will update freeradius to the latest version. When you run this command with the -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove freeradius when using the -y flag.
yum info freeradius
This command will show you core information about the freeradius package.
yum deplist freeradius
This command will show you the dependencies for freeradius. Thankfully, when using Yum, if dependencies are required, these are also installed at the same time so you don't have to worry too much about that.
yum check-update freeradius
This command will check if there is an update waiting on freeradius. When you run this command this will return nothing if there is nothing to update, or, will return the package name if the package is due to be updated.