Wifi and Client-Side authentication

[Liran Tal]

It is possible though to combine a Captive Portal system with Wireless
encryption.

On Feb 17, 2008 9:55 PM, Phil Mayers <p.mayers at imperial.ac.uk> wrote:

> Bill Farina wrote:
> > Here's the scenario, I have a Linksys WRT54GS running DD-WRT RC5 which
> > is fully configured for Radius.  I have a small FreeBSD server running
> > FreeRadius-1.1.7_2.  HTTPD (or Apache) has not been installed on the
> > system and in it's current configuration would be difficult to do so.
> > The BSD box is also running PAP which makes it very easy to configure
> > accounts and it's a account creation method that I'm familiar and
> > comfortable with.   The two machines are currently communicating.
> >
> > What I'm trying to do is figure out a way that I can authenticate
> > enduser machines using this setup.  What I would like to see is upon the
> > initial login attempt, a popup comes up and asks for username and
> > password.  From that point on, everything would be automatic on the
> > user-side and individual client machines would store all of the login
> > information.
> >
> > I'm not opposed to adding software to client machines to facilitate the
> > login.
>
> This is not really a FreeRadius question. You want to investigate either
> "Captive Portal" or "WPA/WPA2" depending on your requirements.
>
> Captive Portal - no encryption on the wireless. used web-based login
> which may (if you want) talk PAP to FreeRadius e.g. ChilliSpot
>
> WPA/WPA2 - gives wireless encryption, REQUIRES 802.1x supplicant
> software on the clients (e.g. wpa_supplicant, xsupplicant, windows
> XP/Vists or MacOS X built-in) and a radius server
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Regards,
Liran Tal.
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