kerberos authentication

Riccardo.Veraldi Riccardo.Veraldi at fi.infn.it
Thu Jan 12 09:28:27 CET 2006


Actually I used EAP-TTLS with EAP-MD5 inside the tunnel
I think I should try PAP inside hte TLS tunnel isn't it ?
I'll try

Rick


Alan DeKok wrote:

>"Riccardo.Veraldi" <Riccardo.Veraldi at fi.infn.it> wrote:
>  
>
>>But I am unable to succesfully authenticate
>>and I get this error:
>>
>>rlm_krb5: Attribute "User-Password" is required for authentication.
>>    
>>
>...
>  
>
>>I would like the authentication via 802.1x to point to my kerberos server
>>instead of a local radius users file authentication (this indeed works 
>>with EAP-TTLS).
>>    
>>
>
>  Because EAP-TTLS supplies a clear-text password in the TLS tunnel.
>
>  The message you're getting is from a PEAP session (and no, you don't
>say that).  PEAP uses MS-CHAP inside of the TLS tunnel, which means
>it's impossible to do kerberos authentication.  MS-CHAP doesn't supply
>a clear-text password, so you can't use that, and kerberos doesn't
>understand MS-CHAP.
>
>  
>
>>should I instead use PAM module and configure PAM
>>to authenticate using kerberos ?
>>    
>>
>
>  No.  PAM doesn't understand MS-CHAP, either.
>
>  What you want to do is impossible, because it's designed to be
>impossible by the people who created MS-CHAP and Kerberos.
>
>  Alan DeKok.
>
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