Auth Against AD without CHAP/PEAP

Phil Mayers p.mayers at imperial.ac.uk
Fri Jan 12 00:29:13 CET 2007


Tim_Crouch at uttyler.edu wrote:
> Is it possible to use freeradius to authenticate against Active Directory 
> without using CHAP or PEAP?  I have found directions to do this with 
> supplicants using peap etc. but I don't want to use supplicants.  I am 
> currently using freeradius to auth against LDAP with out a problem (for my 
> wireless network).  I have made changes in radiusd.conf (basically 
> replacing my LDAP entries with the corresponding AD entry) to try to auth 
> agains AD, but it does not look as if it can read the password.  Is anyone 
> else doing this?  And if so, how?

No. AD doesn't give you the password.

The only things you can do are:

  1) authenticate PAP request by doing an LDAP simple bind against AD.
  2) use the "ntlm_auth" helper of the "mschap" module with Samba joined 
into the domain



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