Re: wpa_supplicant phase2="auth=PAP"

[Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>]

On Thu, 2006-08-03 at 22:03 +1000, John Mann wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm looking for wpa_supplicant phase2="auth=PAP"
> support in NetworkManager.

I don't think we support phase2 stuff yet just because there's no UI
bits for it.  Of course wpa_supplicant supports it, so it's a matter of
adding right UI and handling bits to NM.

> This is for Eduroam wireless access.
> Radius servers from different organisations are federated together, and
> EAP-TTLS is used to tunnel authentication back to the home Radius
> server.
> 
> In our case, phase2="auth=PAP" is used to authenticate against a LDAP
> server at the home organisation.
> 
> Generically speaking, can NetworkManager be enhanced to support the
> *nix-relevant options that SecureW2 (http://www.securew2.com/uk/) does?

What bits are those?

Dan

> ---
> It doesn't look too hard to add code to save/recall options and send
> them to wpa_cli.  But the GUI widget code is outside my experience ...
> 
> Is anyone else working on this?
> Does anyone want to help me do it?
> 
> Thanks,
>         John
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