1CLIENTS(5) File Formats Manual CLIENTS(5)
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6 clients - RADIUS clients file
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9 The clients file resides in the radius database directory, by default
10 /etc/raddb. Its use is depreciated in favour of clients.conf.
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12 Every line starting with a hash sign ('#') is treated as comment and
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15 Each line of the file contains two white-space delimited fields.
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17 client hostname
18 The RADIUS clients hostname. This may be a plain hostname, or a
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21 secret This is the so-called "shared secret" that is held between a
22 RADIUS server and client. It is used to encrypt passwords in
23 RADIUS packets, and also for authentication. You need to configā
24 ure the same secret on the client (terminal server) as in this
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27 The clients file is read by radiusd on startup only.
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33 radiusd(8), clients.conf(5) naslist(5)
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