It's a frustrating situation because if Windows were to support all of the encryption features that their competition does, indeed, that my _phone_ supports, I would not need to compromise. I personally believe a company can deliver a top product without sacrificing their profit margin. Microsoft falls short of this, and here we have a perfect example of precisely how. I also think their tiered version method they introduced with Vista is dishonest, as a result of this. But we're getting off track. It's too bad the XSupplicant project is not yet to the point of stability with Windows 7 64-Bit. I haven't had an opportunity to test it with 32-Bit yet, I imagine it works okay with Windows XP, but many of our employees are using Windows 7 on newer laptops. If that app worked, this wouldn't be a problem. If you ask me, that is the nature of the beast when it comes to computers. It'll work in a month, or a year, or several years, but for now we just beat our heads against the wall. In quick response to Stefan, I'm not associated with eduroam, however, I have found the eduroam instructions to be very helpful in getting this working as far as I have. In particular, the iphone support. So thanks for that. :) On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 8:55 AM, Alan DeKok <aland@deployingradius.com> wrote:
Steve Hopps wrote:
The reasons you stated are why I think this is near impossible. Our passwords are stored with md5... I'm not fond of the idea that in order to get this to work, we have to compromise our security policy.
Life is a series of compromises. Deal with it.
As for the Windows salesman, leaving out features from one OS to sell a newer OS is one of the reasons I cannot stand your company.
I'll take that as "adding more features in newer releases".
Windows 8 is the first version which supports TTLS. While this should arguably have been done years ago, it's nice to have it now.
And if you're arguing against upgrades, you can do the same for FreeRADIUS. Version 3.0 will support RadSec (RADIUS over SSL). Version 2.x will not. Ever.
That said, Windows 7 is great in my opinion, like Windows XP. If you really care, put pressure on your higher ups to extend the functionality to support things like EAP/TTLS and PAP. I'm sure there's other deficiencies.. How is it right to sell "ultimate" versions of an OS for $150-200 when they dont even support as many features as a free, open source system?
They have different priorities.
FreeRADIUS is about making software that works.
Microsoft is about money.
Guess which one works well, and which one has more money?
Alan DeKok. - List info/subscribe/unsubscribe? See http://www.freeradius.org/list/users.html