Default radiusd.conf and Auth-Type LDAP comment

Alan DeKok aland at deployingradius.com
Thu Sep 21 20:58:40 CEST 2006


Thibault Le Meur <Thibault.LeMeur at supelec.fr> wrote:
> While usually true, this assumption is a little confusing sometimes. 
> Indeed, when EAP-TTLS uses PAP (not an EAP protocol I know) as its 
> inside authentication protocol, a cleartext password is provided to 
> Freeradius which is then able to use a simple ldap bind exchange to 
> authenticate the user.

  But you still can't force "Auth-Type := LDAP", because then the
outer TTLS session will fail.

  I'm inclined to remove the LDAP "bind as user" entirely, or move it
to a completely separate "ldap_bind" module.  It's a major cause of
problems, and it's rarely necessary.

  Alan DeKok.
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