Re: RADIUS-MySQL problem

Hi Maurice,

Thanks for responding... I am currently upgrading SuSE from 8.2 to
9.2. Just wanted to work with the latest versions.

I'll recheck the port. But, '/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock'  was not
there. I observed that MySQL used /tmp/mysql.sock, while radius was
using '/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock' . I wasn't sure why radius used
'/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock' ... I guess this could be the problem. How
can I make radius to point to /tmp/mysql.sock??

Thanks,
Shashi.


On Sat, 29 Jan 2005 00:50:56 +0100, Maurice Makaay
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> > I am trying to use radauth, but I get an Authentication error-
> > Auth.error: [MYSQL] cannot connecto to localhost as root: Can't
> > connect to local MySQL server through socket
> > '/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock' (2)
> 
> > The MySQL is running on port 3036, and I have the port in sqlserver
> > set to 3036, with servername as localhost.
> 
> Are you sure this is the port? I think the default port is 3306 for MySQL.
> I might be mistaking though... This shouldn't be a real issue, since
> you're apparently connecting through the mysql.sock UNIX socket file.
> IIRC, the port is then irrelevant.
> 
> > I am doubting that something is wrong with the users file. It just
> 
> I think your problem lies in connecting to the database itself. This
> is not a real radius problem. Take a look to see if you can connect
> to your MySQL server on the promt using the command line:
> 
> # mysql -h<server> -u<login> <auth_db>
> 
> Replace the <...> values with the corresponding fields from your
> sqlserver configuration file. If you have setup a password in your
> sqlserver file, also include that one using -p<password> (or better:
> only -p and fill in the password when mysql asks for it). If the
> database information in the sqlserver file is correct, then this
> command line call should work. If this fails, first try to configure
> the MySQL server, so this command line does work.
> 
> Further: quite trivial, but does the file /var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock
> exist on your system when the MySQL server is running?
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Maurice Makaay
> InterNLnet BV
> 
>