Internet Service Providers

Authenticating the Internet, providing centralised subscriber management and billing.

Internet Service Providers

FreeRADIUS authenticates users and tracks accounting data for millions of DSL connections and phones every day.

Enterprise Networks

Securing critical networks and BYOD with smart network access policies, and agentless posture assessment.

Enterprise Networks

Both wired and wireless 802.1X solutions use RADIUS as the backend. From the smallest business to the largest enterprise, IT managers can be found relying on FreeRADIUS everywhere!

Educational Institutions

Controlling access to campus wireless networks and allowing seamless inter-institutional roaming.

Educational Institutions

FreeRADIUS is commonly used in academic wireless networks, especially amongst the eduroam community.

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Welcome to the FreeRADIUS project, the open source implementation of RADIUS, an IETF protocol for AAA (Authorisation, Authentication, and Accounting).

The FreeRADIUS project maintains the following components: a multi protocol policy server (radiusd) that implements RADIUS, DHCP, BFD, and ARP; a BSD licensed RADIUS client library; a RADIUS PAM library; and an Apache RADIUS module.

FreeRADIUS is responsible for authenticating one third of all users on the Internet.

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Our comprehensive support for protocols, data stores, directories, databases, and language integrations would not be possible without contributions from the community. Open your favourite editor and help us make FreeRADIUS better!

Develop new modules

API documentation, C code examples, and anything else you need to get up-to-speed and writing modules for FreeRADIUS.

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Developed your own module? Great! Submit your code back to the project and have it maintained by the community.

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Patch issues

Found an issue? We accept patches for everything, from code, to documentation, and even to this website!

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