accepting clients with expired certificates

Alan DeKok aland at deployingradius.com
Tue Aug 28 14:55:00 CEST 2007


Norbert Wegener wrote:
> If the client's certificate is expired, eap/tls will, of course,  fail.
> In this case a guest vlan shall be assigned to the client.

  I'm not sure that's good enough.  The client may not believe it was
successfully authenticated until the TLS session is properly finished.

> Having a module, that adds the needed radius-attributes seems to work,
> if  an additional Auth-Type += Accept is added.
> Doing this, the eap-tls is short-circuited and may result in a:
> 
> Incoming RADIUS packet did not have correct Message-Authenticator - dropped
> message
> on the client side.

  Try adding a Message-Authenticator to the reply.  Any value will do,
as it will be re-calculated when the packet is sent.

  Alan DeKok.



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