Checking TLS-Cert-* and and accept/reject based on them

Alan DeKok aland at deployingradius.com
Wed Feb 8 11:47:57 CET 2012


Matthew Newton wrote:
> First is that you can call the detail module, to get a record of
> the certificate details easily in a log. Putting detail in
> post-auth before didn't work as, in post-auth, detail logs the
> response not the request.

  Nice!

> I've now got a detail instance in both the tls virtual-server and
> the post-auth / post-auth reject. This gets me a single log file
> with two (only) entries for each connection request - both the
> request AVPs, the certificate data, and the response.

  That does make it much easier to manage.

> Second is that I can call LDAP from the TLS virtual server and
> check group membership of the connecting device. Without this, you
> have to call LDAP in the inner tunnel (or outer, if you're doing
> plain EAP-TLS), and it gets called each time around the
> challenge-response loop, which hits the LDAP server more than
> necessary. Here, it just gets called once (see [0] for similar
> with PEAP/MS-CHAPv2). It's similar to the eap { ok = return } you
> can do for PEAP, but for EAP-TLS.

  That helps, too.

  My only comment is that the patch is against the v2.1.x branch.  Major
new functionality needs to go into the "master" branch.

  Alan DeKok.



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