Re: Note regarding PEAP on NM 0.7

[Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>]

On Mon, 2008-06-09 at 13:40 -0400, Darren Albers wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 9, 2008 at 1:05 PM, Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com> wrote:
> > On Mon, 2008-06-09 at 10:48 -0400, Darren Albers wrote:
> >> If your wireless network uses PEAP and authenticates via Active
> >> Directory the old domain\username format no longer works (At least it
> >> doesn't with my network or my test networks).   Instead use
> >> username fqdn domain    So if your domain is test.com you use
> >> username test com
> >>
> >> Dan, if it matters I have tested this with Aruba AP's talking to Cisco
> >> ACS servers so it might be something particular to my setup but with
> >> 0.6.5 and 0.6.6 it worked using domain\username.
> >
> > I can't think of anything in NM that would have changed.  Things that
> > would affect this would be the supplicant or the ACS server...  Any idea
> > if those versions have changed?
> >
> > Dan
> >
> >
> 
> Nope, in fact if I run 0.6.6 it works fine (I rolled back when
> troubleshooting it), but when I run 0.7 it fails using
> domain\username.   I don't know if it is a big deal since user domain
> should work fine for anyone running Windows 2000 or later...   It just
> might be confusing since most supplicants tell you to use
> domain\username

Can you see what it looks like in GConf when you use domain\username?  I
wonder if it's an escaping issue.  Also, when you use domain\username,
does NM send the option through to the supplicant like that or is it
mangled in some way?  /var/log/messages should show during the
connection attempt.

Dan