a freeradious/wireless solution for a school

[jonr at destar.net]

Quoting "King, Michael" <MKing at bridgew.edu>:

> You configure your client to use TTLS or PEAP, and upon connecting to
> the network, they will be prompted to enter username and password.  If
> they don't have one, they don't get on.  If they do have one, they get
> on.
>
This also solves your problem of having to give out a cert to each client as
both of these only require a server side cert. You could then purchase a
certificate from a trusted CA and that would already be in their browsers list
of Trusted CA's.

Here are a couple of howto's the first is for a Linux supplicant and the second
is for using a Windows supplicant. What's a supplicant? The client.

http://tldp.org/HOWTO/html_single/8021X-HOWTO/

http://text.dslreports.com/forum/remark,9286052~mode=flat

Hope that helps,

Jon