EAP-TLS and "default user"?!

[Alan DeKok]

Lukas Haase wrote:
> I searched a lot in the net and all I found was that the supplicant
> should be broken because it should send a username along.

  Yes.  The supplicant is broken.

  *Or* you somehow managed to get it to do 802.1X with an empty user name.

> Well, I can not image this because then this would be mentioned in ANY
> of these tutorials.
> 
> Maybe I also need to add a special "default" entry to the users file?

  No.  The supplicant is broken.

> I played around but still I did not get it working.
> 
> Can anybody give me a hint where to start?

  Fix the supplicant.

  Alan DeKok.