Linksys WRT54G - DD-WRT - Wireless Auth

[Richard Hamilton-Frost]

Thanks Alan,

What I'll probably have a go at will be attempting to authenticate it
against Samba if possible, not looked into how it works yet, but I'm
hopeful. :)

R

On 15/02/07, Alan DeKok <aland at deployingradius.com> wrote:
> Richard Hamilton-Frost wrote:
> > What I want:
> >
> > To be able to authenticate wireless users via the /etc/passwd and
> > /etc/shadow files. I've setup the WRT54GL to talk to the Radius
> > server, this all seems fine and dandy. The WRT54GL is using WPA TKIP,
> > it has the option of WPA AES too, and WPA AES+TKIP, neither seem to
> > work.. here is the output I get when trying to authenticate a user:
>
>  ...
> > rlm_eap_md5: Issuing Challenge
>
>   http://deployingradius.com/documents/protocols/compatibility.html
>
>   Passwords in /etc/shadow are hashed via the "crypt" method, or one
> similar to that.  It is impossible to do EAP-MD5 and authenticate users
> via passwords in /etc/shadow.
>
>   If you're going to use EAP, you MUST have the clear-text password for
> the user.
>
>   Alan DeKok.
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