This brief post shows you how to install FreeRadius on Linux / OpenBSD / FreeBSD with MySQL or MariaDB as the database. The Linux distributions which we will cover including CentOS and Ubuntu.
FreeRadius is an open-source, free, fast, feature-rich, modular, and scalable Radius server. According to its official web site, many Fortune-500 companies and tier 1 ISPs are using FreeRadius as their AAA solution.
As a system administrator, it is your responsibility to make sure that DNS servers are configured correctly. In this tutorial I want to show you how to secure the DNS servers preventing as an open recursive resolver.
You want to run XWindow (Xorg) rather than command line on OpenBSD. Here are the trick.
It should be also applicable for every system running Xorg as the X server like Linux, FreeBSD, Opensolaris, etc.
You want to install OpenBSD additional packages such as bash, pico, mozilla-firefox and others directly from an ftp server meaning that you do not need to download the packages first and save to your hard disk. In other word, installing the packages on the fly.
It is very easy to do this. We will do this using ‘pkg_add’ tool. One thing you need to know is ‘pkg_add’ will try to search the packages name in the working directory where you type the pkg_add command and also search the dependency of packages that you want to install. If it could not be found, error messages will be prompted.
