I've installed and configured a radius server upon my localhost - it is delegating auth to a remote LDAP server.

Initially things look good: I can test via the console:

# export user=skemp
# export pass=xxx
# radtest $user $pass localhost 1812 $secret
Sending Access-Request of id 185 to 127.0.0.1 port 1812
    User-Name = "skemp"
    User-Password = "xxx"
    NAS-IP-Address = 192.168.1.168
    NAS-Port = 1812
rad_recv: Access-Accept packet from host 127.0.0.1 port 1812, id=185,

Similarly I can use the login tool to do the same thing:

bash-4.0# /usr/libexec/auth/login_radius -d -s login $user radius
Password: $pass
authorize

However remote logins via SSH are failing, and so are invokations of "login" started by root. Looking at /var/log/radiusd.log I see no actual log of success/failure which I do see when using either of the previous tools.

Instead sshd is just logging:

 sshd[23938]: Failed publickey for skemp from 192.168.1.9
 sshd[23938]: Failed keyboard-interactive for skemp from 192.168.1.9 port 36259 ssh2
 sshd[23938]: Failed password for skemp from 192.168.1.9 port 36259 ssh2

In /etc/login.conf I have this:

# Default allowed authentication styles
auth-defaults:auth=radius:

...

radius:\
    :auth=radius:\
    :radius-server=localhost:\
    :radius-port=1812:\
    :radius-timeout=1:\
    :radius-retries=5: