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CLIENTS(5)                                                                                        CLIENTS(5)



NAME
       clients - RADIUS clients file

DESCRIPTION
       The clients file resides in the radius database directory, by default /etc/raddb. Its use is depreci-ated depreciated
       ated in favour of clients.conf.

       Every line starting with a hash sign ('#') is treated as comment and ignored.

       Each line of the file contains two white-space delimited fields.

       client hostname
              The RADIUS clients hostname.  This may be a plain hostname, or a dotted-quad IP address.

       secret This is the so-called "shared secret" that is held between a RADIUS server and client.  It  is
              used  to encrypt passwords in RADIUS packets, and also for authentication. You need to config-ure configure
              ure the same secret on the client (terminal server) as in this file.

       The clients file is read by radiusd on startup only.

FILES
       /etc/raddb/clients

SEE ALSO
       radiusd(8), clients.conf(5) naslist(5)



                                                16 March 2001                                     CLIENTS(5)