hostapd + freeradius + windows users problem

tnt at kalik.net tnt at kalik.net
Fri Nov 14 00:41:02 CET 2008


>The following RFC 3580 Chapter 2.1 text is one reason for hostapd behavipr:
>
>   "Within [IEEE80211], periodic re-authentication may be useful in
>   preventing reuse of an initialization vector with a given key.  Since
>   successful re-authentication does not result in termination of the
>   session, accounting packets are not sent as a result of
>   re-authentication unless the status of the session changes.  For
>   example:"
>
>As far as I can tell, that is describing multiple re-authentications
>for a single RADIUS session. Should the Supplicant decide to change
>its identity (e.g., switch between user and machine credentials)
>without stopping the session (disassociate/EAPOL-Logoff), I don't see
>how the Authenticator (NAS) should handle this case. It sounds like
>you are asking to arbitrarily pick the first identity (or create a new
>session, which would not comply with this RFC 3850 text)

Really?

b. The authorizations are changed as a result of a successful
      re-authentication.  In this case, the Service Unavailable (15)
      termination cause is used.  For accounting purposes, the portion
      of the session after the authorization change is treated as a
      separate session.

It would be quite reasonable to interpret change of user credentials as
change of authorization.

Ivan Kalik
Kalik Informatika ISP




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