need help & advice getting started with freeradius

[Alexander Clouter]

daniel knox <mail at dknox.co.uk> wrote:
> 
> Hello everyone, this is my first time getting started with freeradius.
> 
> I implement ICT at a local school and I would like to improve our wireless
> from a WPA pre-share key to a radius based system. We have an openldap
> server already with all our users and groups and use them to authticate them
> into our clients. I would like to extend this username and password
> requirement to our wireless systems rather than having to give out our
> wireless key. Our wireless users have a variety of Windows, OSX and Linux
> machines.
> Free-radius therefore seems to be the idea solution to this.
> 
Because of your 'location' you might be interested in familiarising 
yourself with 'eduroam' (you probably already are as Portsmouth 
university has implemented it):

http://www.ja.net/services/authentication-and-authorisation/janet-roaming.html

It's not quite something for the school level (I'm guessing this is your 
primary school project?) but it's something that is pretty prevalent in 
the university world and being pushed for the further education world.

You can see Arran blowing his trumpet (I tease, it's actually good 
stuff) with his step-by-step guide too:

http://www.ja.net/documents/services/janet-roaming/sussex-freeradius-case-study.pdf

If you need any assistance on this, best take it off list as it starts 
going off topic for FreeRADIUS.

Although 'eduroam' might not be available to the local school for 
whatever reasons, all the documentation relating to deploying FreeRADIUS 
for 'eduroam' is exactly what you are looking for.

Cheers

[1] as far as I am aware, I'm sure Mark O'Leary will correct me here if 
	need be

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Alexander Clouter
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