diff --git a/meta-networking/recipes-connectivity/freeradius/files/radiusd.service b/meta-networking/recipes-connectivity/freeradius/files/radiusd.service
index 37a2eb3d7..7969bfb69 100644
--- a/meta-networking/recipes-connectivity/freeradius/files/radiusd.service
+++ b/meta-networking/recipes-connectivity/freeradius/files/radiusd.service
@@ -4,10 +4,11 @@ After=syslog.target network.target
 
 [Service]
 Type=forking
+EnvironmentFile=-/etc/sysconfig/radiusd
 PIDFile=/run/radiusd/radiusd.pid
 ExecStartPre=-@BASE_BINDIR@/chown -R radiusd:radiusd /run/radiusd
 ExecStartPre=@SBINDIR@/radiusd -C
-ExecStart=@SBINDIR@/radiusd -d @SYSCONFDIR@/raddb
+ExecStart=@SBINDIR@/radiusd -d @SYSCONFDIR@/${MLPREFIX}raddb
 ExecReload=@SBINDIR@/radiusd -C
 ExecReload=@BASE_BINDIR@/kill -HUP $MAINPID
 
diff --git a/meta-networking/recipes-connectivity/freeradius/freeradius_3.0.21.bb b/meta-networking/recipes-connectivity/freeradius/freeradius_3.0.21.bb
index 1407b798b..b459412e0 100644
--- a/meta-networking/recipes-connectivity/freeradius/freeradius_3.0.21.bb
+++ b/meta-networking/recipes-connectivity/freeradius/freeradius_3.0.21.bb
@@ -199,7 +199,37 @@ pkg_postinst:${PN} () {
         # Fix ownership for /etc/raddb/*, /var/lib/radiusd
         chown -R radiusd:radiusd ${raddbdir}
         chown -R radiusd:radiusd ${localstatedir}/lib/radiusd
+
+        # for radiusd.service with multilib
+        if ${@bb.utils.contains('DISTRO_FEATURES', 'systemd', 'true', 'false', d)}; then
+            install -d ${sysconfdir}/sysconfig
+            echo "MLPREFIX=${MLPREFIX}" > ${sysconfdir}/sysconfig/radiusd
+        fi
+    else
+        if ${@bb.utils.contains('DISTRO_FEATURES', 'systemd', 'true', 'false', d)}; then
+            install -d $D${sysconfdir}/sysconfig
+            echo "MLPREFIX=${MLPREFIX}" > $D${sysconfdir}/sysconfig/radiusd
+        fi
+    fi
+}
+
+pkg_postrm:${PN} () {
+    # only try to remove ${sysconfdir}/sysconfig/radiusd for systemd
+    if ${@bb.utils.contains('DISTRO_FEATURES', 'systemd', 'false', 'true', d)}; then
+        exit 0
+    fi
+
+    if [ -d ${sysconfdir}/raddb ]; then
+        exit 0
     fi
+    for variant in ${MULTILIB_GLOBAL_VARIANTS}; do
+        if [ -d ${sysconfdir}/${variant}-raddb ]; then
+            exit 0
+        fi
+    done
+
+    rm -f ${sysconfdir}/sysconfig/radiusd
+    rmdir --ignore-fail-on-non-empty ${sysconfdir}/sysconfig
 }
 
 # We really need the symlink :(