(RADIATOR) Mac-Adress Check and LDAP on OS X

Urs Landis urs.landis at mac.com
Tue Mar 1 13:10:00 CST 2005


Thanks for the Info Christian

i got the same result, but whats about TTLS, TLS, PEAP and MD5 where 
will ServerChecksPassword run and where not?

Best regards


Urs Landis
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Am 01.03.2005 um 19:57 schrieb Christian Kratzer:

> Hi,
>
> On Tue, 1 Mar 2005, Hugh Irvine wrote:
>
>>
>> Hello Urs -
>>
>> Your AuthBy FILE should only check the MAC addresses.
>>
>> # list MAC addresses
>>
>> 0030.6503.0a96 Auth-Type = ACCEPT
>>
>> ......
>>
>>
>> The AuthBy LDAP2 should be called after the AuthBy FILE.
>>
>> <Handler NAS-Port-Type=Wireless-IEEE-802-11>
>>        AuthByPolicy ContinueWhileAccept
>>        AuthBy CheckMACAddress
>>        AuthBy CheckLDAP
>> </Handler>
>>
>> BTW - you can only store cleartext passwords when using LEAP.
>>
>> And I'm not sure whether ServerChecksPasswords will work in this 
>> scenario.
>
> it will not.
>
> ServerChecksPassword just passes the username/password combination to
> the ldap bind.  This rules out any challenge / response based
> authentication schemes like espcially chap and mschap2.
>
> So CHAP is currently only possible if the password is accessible in
> cleartext via an LDAP attribute which is why we have not yet been able 
> to get 802.1X PEAP to work with AuthLDAP2 against Active Diretory.
>
> What I have been thinking about in this context is if there could be an
> advanced version of ServerChecksPassword called 
> ServerChecksPasswordUsingSASL
> that would use sasl to attempt an ldap bind.
>
> Sasl should allow radiator to proxy the challenge response back to the 
> nas.
>
> I am not sure if this could be done. If yes this could be big pain 
> saver
> for all active directory installations.
>
> Greetings
> Christian
>
> -- 
> Christian Kratzer                       ck at cksoft.de
> CK Software GmbH                        http://www.cksoft.de/
> Phone: +49 7452 889 135                 Fax: +49 7452 889 136
>
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