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    Success! I've successfully gotten OpenVPN + PAM + FreeRADIUS authenticating!!

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      j0emv
      last edited by

      No thats not normal, but it looks like you did the pkg_add -r openvpn command and it downgraded you to v 2.0.5.  I dont know why that happens on the 1.0.1 platform but I upgraded to the latest pfsense snapshot and that seemed to correct the problem.  I would suggest applying the latest pfsense snapshot if you can, then perform the pkg_add -r openvpn command and it will fix the PLUGIN_INIT issue.  And yes, FREERADIUS should be running…

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        knakkergaard
        last edited by

        @j0emv:

        No thats not normal, but it looks like you did the pkg_add -r openvpn command and it downgraded you to v 2.0.5.  I dont know why that happens on the 1.0.1 platform but I upgraded to the latest pfsense snapshot and that seemed to correct the problem.  I would suggest applying the latest pfsense snapshot if you can, then perform the pkg_add -r openvpn command and it will fix the PLUGIN_INIT issue.  And yes, FREERADIUS should be running…

        Thank you!!

        That did the trick  8)

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          Owen
          last edited by

          Awesome setup.

          "can write up a tutorial on how to design a pfSense CARP cluster using a public DMZ zone and OpenVPN with FreeRADIUS accounting if you guys would like as thats the way I designed our setup. "

          I'm sure a lot of us would benefit from that tutorial, if you could write it up that would be awesome.

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            Tele
            last edited by

            This also works with the latest 1.2 beta, thank you!  :)

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              djjacket
              last edited by

              I am still getting the :

              May 22 15:23:43 openvpn[96569]: OpenVPN 2.0.6 i386-portbld-freebsd6.1 [SSL] [LZO] built on Apr 6 2006
              May 22 15:23:43 openvpn[96569]: PLUGIN_INIT: could not load plugin shared object /usr/local/lib/openvpn-auth-pam.so: Service unavailable: Too many links (errno=31)

              after trying all the suggestions in this thread.

              I assume the module should be at the path listed in the error message?

              I do not have the openvpn-auth-pam.so file on my system.  Is it I am running 1.2-Beta-1.

              Any ideas?

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                j0emv
                last edited by

                Did you try the pkg_add -r openvpn command from the shell or console?  Your log says it's still using the broken version of openvpn.  It should say April 2007 after it's gotten the correct version I think.

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                  nikobsd
                  last edited by

                  I got everything done on Server side but i dont know how to define username and password in conf file on Windows any ideas . Thanks :)

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                    jonnytabpni
                    last edited by

                    Thanks for the great info.

                    How would i use this to authenticate against a windows 2003 Active directory using IAS?

                    Cheers

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                      GruensFroeschli
                      last edited by

                      Use the LDAP authentication module.
                      http://code.google.com/p/openvpn-auth-ldap/

                      We do what we must, because we can.

                      Asking questions the smart way: http://www.catb.org/esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

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                        jonnytabpni
                        last edited by

                        i don't suppose anyone has a pre-compiled plugin module?

                        I don't mean to sound lazy but I have no idea how to do that deep stuff in linux. I guess i could learn but i thought I'd be cheeky first :)

                        Thanks

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                          jonnytabpni
                          last edited by

                          Anyways, just going back to the above freeRADIUS setup, what do you need to add the the client file?

                          I've added:

                          auth-user-pass
                          auth-retry interact

                          but these don't work. the server comes back with AUTH FAILED (or something like that…)

                          Is there something else, apart from username,password and max connections i need to add to the user in the freeradius setup page?

                          Thanks

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                            jonnytabpni
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                            Here is my log:

                            Jan 12 23:25:52 openvpn[343]: TUN/TAP device /dev/tun0 opened
                            Jan 12 23:25:52 openvpn[343]: /sbin/ifconfig tun0 10.87.99.1 10.87.99.2 mtu 1500 netmask 255.255.255.255 up
                            Jan 12 23:25:52 openvpn[343]: /etc/rc.filter_configure tun0 1500 1543 10.87.99.1 10.87.99.2 init
                            Jan 12 23:25:55 openvpn[343]: Listening for incoming TCP connection on [undef]:443
                            Jan 12 23:25:55 openvpn[343]: TCPv4_SERVER link local (bound): [undef]:443
                            Jan 12 23:25:55 openvpn[343]: TCPv4_SERVER link remote: [undef]
                            Jan 12 23:25:55 openvpn[343]: Initialization Sequence Completed
                            Jan 12 23:26:14 openvpn[343]: Re-using SSL/TLS context
                            Jan 12 23:26:14 openvpn[343]: TCP connection established with xx.xx.145.118:3680
                            Jan 12 23:26:14 openvpn[343]: TCPv4_SERVER link local: [undef]
                            Jan 12 23:26:14 openvpn[343]: TCPv4_SERVER link remote: xx.xx.145.118:3680
                            Jan 12 23:26:27 openvpn[1253]: rad_send_request: No valid RADIUS responses received
                            Jan 12 23:26:27 openvpn[343]: xx.xx.145.118:3680 PLUGIN_CALL: plugin function PLUGIN_AUTH_USER_PASS_VERIFY failed with status 1: /usr/local/lib/openvpn-auth-pam.so
                            Jan 12 23:26:27 openvpn[343]: xx.xx.145.118:3680 TLS Auth Error: Auth Username/Password verification failed for peer
                            Jan 12 23:26:27 openvpn[343]: xx.xx.145.118:3680 [client1] Peer Connection Initiated with xx.xx.145.118:3680
                            Jan 12 23:26:28 openvpn[343]: xx.xx.145.118:3680 Connection reset, restarting [0]

                            I have a feeling that my radius server isn't running. I did telnet 10.87.0.1 1892 and it didn't connect (usually if something is listening it comes back with something at least…)

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                              jonnytabpni
                              last edited by

                              ok i did some testing with another RADIUS server on another machine.

                              pfsense can communicate to it ok however with the current type of setting in the users file:

                              user1 User-Password == "password"

                              the RADIUS server always replies back with a Reject (according to tcpdump)

                              If I force an accept reply by doing in the users file:

                              lameusername Auth-Type != Accept

                              tcpdump says that the Radius server is responding with an accept (as I've forced it) but openVPN server still send my openVPN client "Received AUTH_FAILED control message"

                              Any ideas what openvpn wants?

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                                eureka
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                                Hi Jonny!
                                I was having the same problem as you were but i found that i could fix it by making this change to the /etc/radius.conf file.

                                (This is my /etc/radius.conf on my testVM)

                                
acct 192.168.1.1:1892 *passhere*
auth 192.168.1.1:1892 *passhere*

                                You will see that i just changed the file to add the port for the radius server. I found that without this the openvpn server was never even talking to my radius server (found after a LOT of log hunting and debugging). Try making that change then rebooting your box.. It should hopfully work at that point. If not post back here or PM me and ill try and help you out with it =)

                                -Eureka

                                @jonnytabpni:

                                Here is my log:

                                Jan 12 23:25:52 openvpn[343]: TUN/TAP device /dev/tun0 opened
                                Jan 12 23:25:52 openvpn[343]: /sbin/ifconfig tun0 10.87.99.1 10.87.99.2 mtu 1500 netmask 255.255.255.255 up
                                Jan 12 23:25:52 openvpn[343]: /etc/rc.filter_configure tun0 1500 1543 10.87.99.1 10.87.99.2 init
                                Jan 12 23:25:55 openvpn[343]: Listening for incoming TCP connection on [undef]:443
                                Jan 12 23:25:55 openvpn[343]: TCPv4_SERVER link local (bound): [undef]:443
                                Jan 12 23:25:55 openvpn[343]: TCPv4_SERVER link remote: [undef]
                                Jan 12 23:25:55 openvpn[343]: Initialization Sequence Completed
                                Jan 12 23:26:14 openvpn[343]: Re-using SSL/TLS context
                                Jan 12 23:26:14 openvpn[343]: TCP connection established with xx.xx.145.118:3680
                                Jan 12 23:26:14 openvpn[343]: TCPv4_SERVER link local: [undef]
                                Jan 12 23:26:14 openvpn[343]: TCPv4_SERVER link remote: xx.xx.145.118:3680
                                Jan 12 23:26:27 openvpn[1253]: rad_send_request: No valid RADIUS responses received
                                Jan 12 23:26:27 openvpn[343]: xx.xx.145.118:3680 PLUGIN_CALL: plugin function PLUGIN_AUTH_USER_PASS_VERIFY failed with status 1: /usr/local/lib/openvpn-auth-pam.so
                                Jan 12 23:26:27 openvpn[343]: xx.xx.145.118:3680 TLS Auth Error: Auth Username/Password verification failed for peer
                                Jan 12 23:26:27 openvpn[343]: xx.xx.145.118:3680 [client1] Peer Connection Initiated with xx.xx.145.118:3680
                                Jan 12 23:26:28 openvpn[343]: xx.xx.145.118:3680 Connection reset, restarting [0]

                                I have a feeling that my radius server isn't running. I did telnet 10.87.0.1 1892 and it didn't connect (usually if something is listening it comes back with something at least…)

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                                  eureka
                                  last edited by

                                  Hi All,
                                  Ive taken the information that j0emv posted and created a simple Howto with my troubleshooting tips and a fix or two. Ive sent it to the wiki-admin to post in the tutorials section but until then you can find it here:

                                  http://fusionnetwork.us/index.php/component/content/article/15-general-tutorials/23-pfsense-openvpn-freeradius

                                  Hope it help ;)

                                  -E

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                                    alexb
                                    last edited by

                                    I am running pfsense 1.2Release.
                                    I followed the tutorial above but it looks like i do not have the openvpn-auth-pam.so plugin in /usr/local/lib and therefore i get the following error:
                                    Mar 17 19:43:12 openvpn[29060]: Exiting
                                    Mar 17 19:43:12 openvpn[29060]: PLUGIN_INIT: could not load plugin shared object /usr/local/lib/openvpn-auth-pam.so: Service unavailable: Too many links (errno=31)
                                    Mar 17 19:43:12 openvpn[29060]: OpenVPN 2.0.6 i386-portbld-freebsd6.2 [SSL] [LZO] built on Sep 13 2007

                                    the tutorial suggest running pkg_add -r openvpn to update to the latest openvpn version, i already have Openvpn 2.0.6, but ran the command anyway, and got an FTP failure error (apparently th file isn't there anymore?):

                                    Error: FTP Unable to get ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-6.2-release/Latest/openvpn.tbz: File unavailable (e.g., file not found, no access)

                                    Is there any way i can get openvpn-auth-pam.so copied over to my pfsense ?

                                    thanks

                                    ALEX

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                                      eureka
                                      last edited by

                                      Hi Alexb,
                                      It looks like you might be running an old version of the 1.2-release. Can you try updating to the 1.2.2x?
                                      Make a backup of your system, then download the "latest.tgz" and start an update.
                                      http://updates.pfsense.com/_updaters/

                                      -E

                                      @alexb:

                                      I am running pfsense 1.2Release.
                                      I followed the tutorial above but it looks like i do not have the openvpn-auth-pam.so plugin in /usr/local/lib and therefore i get the following error:
                                      Mar 17 19:43:12 openvpn[29060]: Exiting
                                      Mar 17 19:43:12 openvpn[29060]: PLUGIN_INIT: could not load plugin shared object /usr/local/lib/openvpn-auth-pam.so: Service unavailable: Too many links (errno=31)
                                      Mar 17 19:43:12 openvpn[29060]: OpenVPN 2.0.6 i386-portbld-freebsd6.2 [SSL] [LZO] built on Sep 13 2007

                                      the tutorial suggest running pkg_add -r openvpn to update to the latest openvpn version, i already have Openvpn 2.0.6, but ran the command anyway, and got an FTP failure error (apparently th file isn't there anymore?):

                                      Error: FTP Unable to get ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-6.2-release/Latest/openvpn.tbz: File unavailable (e.g., file not found, no access)

                                      Is there any way i can get openvpn-auth-pam.so copied over to my pfsense ?

                                      thanks

                                      ALEX

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                                        alexb
                                        last edited by

                                        Updating to a the 1.2.2 version of pfsense is a little too radical of a solution to include the auth-pam plugin to my system. Updating pfsense would require a lot of testing which i am not willing to do just to add the PAM plugin. Anyone has an idea as to :

                                        • Why i do not have the pam plugin on my system as oppose to everyone on this thread who was successful

                                        • How could i get the plugin loaded on my system without upgrading my pfsense version?

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                                          eureka
                                          last edited by

                                          @alexb:

                                          Updating to a the 1.2.2 version of pfsense is a little too radical of a solution to include the auth-pam plugin to my system. Updating pfsense would require a lot of testing which i am not willing to do just to add the PAM plugin. Anyone has an idea as to :

                                          • Why i do not have the pam plugin on my system as oppose to everyone on this thread who was successful

                                          • How could i get the plugin loaded on my system without upgrading my pfsense version?

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                                            gribbler
                                            last edited by

                                            I've followed here and got everything installed, the RADIUS auth fails:

                                            Tue May 19 07:53:39 2009 us=971748 24.80.65.8:51670 ENVP[24] = 'link_mtu=1543'
                                            Tue May 19 07:53:39 2009 us=971772 24.80.65.8:51670 ENVP[25] = 'dev=tun0'
                                            AUTH-PAM: BACKGROUND: received command code: 0
                                            AUTH-PAM: BACKGROUND: USER/PASS: user1/password1
                                            AUTH-PAM: BACKGROUND: my_conv[0] query='RADIUS Password:' style=1
                                            AUTH-PAM: BACKGROUND: my_conv[0] query='pam_radius: pam_sm_authenticate: Radius failure
                                            ' style=3
                                            AUTH-PAM: BACKGROUND: user 'user1' failed to authenticate: authentication information is unavailable
                                            Tue May 19 07:53:48 2009 us=975656 x.x.x.x:51670 PLUGIN_CALL: POST /usr/local/lib/openvpn-auth-pam.so/PLUGIN_AUTH_USER_PASS_VERIFY status=1
                                            Tue May 19 07:53:48 2009 us=975682 x.x.x.x:51670 PLUGIN_CALL: plugin function PLUGIN_AUTH_USER_PASS_VERIFY failed with status 1: /usr/local/lib/openvpn-auth-pam.so
                                            Tue May 19 07:53:48 2009 us=975706 x.x.x.x:51670 TLS Auth Error: Auth Username/Password verification failed for peer
                                            Tue May 19 07:53:48 2009 us=975837 MULTI TCP: multi_tcp_post TA_SOCKET_READ_RESIDUAL -> TA_SOCKET_WRITE

                                            Does a port need to be opened for FreeRADIUS? What else can I do to debug this?

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