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Instructions for Developers

As the name suggests, FreeRADIUS is developed under the GNU General Public License. We invite anyone to use and contribute code to the project. The following information should prove useful for potential contributors.

Using CVS

We use CVS to coordinate and manage our source code. Public anonymous access to the repository can be obtained with the username anoncvs and the password anoncvs by doing the following:

Source control by CVS 
  $ cvs -d :pserver:anoncvs@cvs.freeradius.org:/source login
  CVS password: anoncvs

  $ cvs -d :pserver:anoncvs@cvs.freeradius.org:/source checkout module

where module is one of the following module names:

radiusd
The FreeRADIUS server daemon.
pam_radius
A Pluggable Authentication Module that should work on Linux, FreeBSD, and Solaris.
mod_auth_radius
An authentication module for the Apache HTTP Server Project.

Patches and contributions

If you're considering submitting a patch, please read the doc/DIFFS file in the server distribution for instructions, and also the bug tracking system. While patches can be mail to the lists, we prefer that they be submitted also via the online bug system.

The FTP site contains some additional patches that are specialized and haven't been applied to the tree.

Development mailing list

We encourage everyone who might contribute code to join the FreeRADIUS development list. This list is highly technical and isn't for most users of the server. For normal discussion of the server and how to use it, there's a FreeRADIUS user-list. You should only subscribe to the development list if you are interested in writing software for the new server.

A CVS snapshot of the current development (possibly unstable) version is placed weekly on the CVS-snapshots/ sub-directory of the FTP site, but developers should use CVS.

Miscellaneous links

RADIUS RFC's and drafts: The two most important are RFC2865 and RFC2866. These are the new RFCs, which replace the old ones, RFC2138 and RFC2139

Related items: Other RADIUS servers, and more RADIUS information.

There are mirrors of the FTP site. See the mirrors web page for details.