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RADMIN(8) FreeRADIUS Server Administration Tool RADMIN(8)

radmin - FreeRADIUS Administration tool

radmin [-d config_directory] [-D dictionary_directory] [-e command] [-E] [-f socket_file] [-h] [-i input_file] [-n name] [-q]

FreeRADIUS Server administration tool that connects to the control socket of a running server, and gives a command-line interface to it.

At this time, only a few commands are supported. Please type "help" at the command prompt for detailed information about the supported commands.

The security protections offered by this command are limited to the permissions on the Unix domain socket, and the server configuration. If someone can connect to the Unix domain socket, they have a substantial amount of control over the server.

The following command-line options are accepted by the program.

Defaults to /etc/freeradius/3.0. radmin looks here for the server configuration files to find the "listen" section that defines the control socket filename.
Set main dictionary directory. Defaults to /usr/share/freeradius.
Run command and exit.
Echo commands as they are being executed.
Specify the socket filename directly. The radiusd.conf file is not read.
Print usage help information.
Reads input from the specified file. If not specified, stdin is used. This also sets "-q".
Read raddb/name.conf instead of raddb/radiusd.conf.
Quiet mode.

The commands implemented by the command-line interface are almost completely controlled by the server. There are a few commands interpreted locally by radmin:

Reconnect to the server.
Exit from radmin.
Exit from radmin.

The other commands are implemented by the server. Type "help" at the prompt for more information.

Set debug logs to /var/log/radius/bob.log. There is very little checking of this filename. Rogue administrators may be able use this command to over-write almost any file on the system. If those administrators have write access to "radius.conf", they can do the same thing without radmin, too.
Enable debugging output for all requests that match the condition. Any "unlang" condition is valid here. The condition is parsed as a string, so it must be enclosed in single or double quotes. Strings enclosed in double-quotes must have back-slashes and the quotation marks escaped inside of the string.

Only one debug condition can be active at a time.

A more complex condition that enables debugging output for requests containing User-Name "bob", or requests that originate from source IP address 192.0.2.22.
Disable debug conditionals.

do sub-command of add
Add client configuration commands
Add new client definition from <filename>
debugging commands
Enable debugging for requests matching [condition]
Set debug level to <number>. Higher is more debugging.
Send all debugging output to [filename]
do sub-command of del
Delete client configuration commands
Delete a dynamically created client
sends a HUP signal to the server, or optionally to one module
commands to inject packets into a running server
Inject packets to the destination IP and port.
Inject packets as if they came from <ipaddr>
Inject packet from input-file>, with results sent to <output-file>
reconnect to a running server
terminates the server, and cause it to exit
do sub-command of set
set module commands
set configuration for <module>
set the module to be alive or dead (always return "fail")
set home server commands
set state for given home server
do sub-command of show
do sub-command of client
shows configuration for a given client.
shows list of global clients
show debug properties
Shows current debugging condition.
Shows current debugging level.
Shows current debugging file.
do sub-command of home_server
show configuration for given home server
shows list of home servers
shows state of given home server
do sub-command of module
show configuration for given module
show other module properties
shows list of loaded modules
show sections where <module> may be used
shows time at which server started
Prints version of the running server
Prints out configuration as XML
do sub-command of stats
show statistics for given client, or for all clients (auth or acct)
show statistics for given home server (ipaddr and port), or for all home servers (auth or acct)
show statistics for the given detail file

unlang(5), radiusd.conf(5), raddb/sites-available/control-socket

Alan DeKok <aland@freeradius.org>

11 Mar 2019