Unix Crypt passwords + Windows 7
Have I exhausted all of my options? Is there anything I’m missing? I have an existing database of users with their passwords encrypted using Unix crypt(). A wireless AP is set for WPA/WPA2 using the RADIUS server to validate user logins. This works great using EAP-GTC for all clients except Windows. Windows doesn’t support EAP-GTC. Here are a few things I can’t do: • Install certificates on the Windows clients • Install a supplicant on the Windows clients Is there anything I can do to get the Windows clients to authenticate without changing the Windows configuration? Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks, Thomas
Thomas Hewton-Waters wrote:
I have an existing database of users with their passwords encrypted using Unix crypt(). A wireless AP is set for WPA/WPA2 using the RADIUS server to validate user logins. This works great using EAP-GTC for all clients except Windows. Windows doesn’t support EAP-GTC.
You can use PEAP + GTC. That should work. And you should NOT be using EAP-GTC by its own. It leaks the passwords, by sending them over the air in clear-text.
Here are a few things I can’t do:
· Install certificates on the Windows clients
· Install a supplicant on the Windows clients
Well, you're stuck.
Is there anything I can do to get the Windows clients to authenticate without changing the Windows configuration?
You need to install the servers certificate on the Windows box for EAP to work. You're really asking "how do I add more security without changing anything". The answer is (of course) "you can't." Alan DeKok.
Hi,
I have an existing database of users with their passwords encrypted using Unix crypt(). A wireless AP is set for WPA/WPA2 using the RADIUS server to validate user logins. This works great using EAP-GTC for all clients except Windows. Windows doesn't support EAP-GTC.
use TTLS/PAP - Latest Windows support that natively...as do Macs and Androids etc etc - earlier Windows will need an extra supplicant - eg SecureW2 alan
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A.L.M.Buxey@lboro.ac.uk -
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Thomas Hewton-Waters