Clarification / Confirmation needed re: Free Radius against Active Directory

Sallee, Stephen (Jake) Jake.Sallee at umhb.edu
Tue Mar 1 23:35:58 CET 2011


Just a word of warning, manually setting Authtype = ANTHING is usually a bad idea.  FR is really good about figuring out what to do all on its own, if you force an auth type it will very likely break something else. 

Jake Sallee
Network Engineer
University of Mary Hardin-Baylor
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: freeradius-users-bounces+jake.sallee=umhb.edu at lists.freeradius.org
> [mailto:freeradius-users-
> bounces+jake.sallee=umhb.edu at lists.freeradius.org] On Behalf Of Moe,
> John
> Sent: Tuesday, March 01, 2011 3:26 PM
> To: FreeRadius users mailing list
> Subject: RE: Clarification / Confirmation needed re: FreeRadius against
> ActiveDirectory
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: freeradius-users-bounces+jmoe=hatch.com.au at lists.freeradius.org
> > [mailto:freeradius-users-
> > bounces+jmoe=hatch.com.au at lists.freeradius.org] On Behalf Of Alan
> > bounces+DeKok
> > Sent: Tuesday, 1 March 2011 5:51 PM
> > To: FreeRadius users mailing list
> > Subject: Re: Clarification / Confirmation needed re: FreeRadius
> > against ActiveDirectory
> >
> > Moe, John wrote:
> > > Now, I've read a lot of configuration pages (for Ubuntu, Samba,
> > Winbind,
> > > and FreeRadius, to name a few) in the last few days, and my head's
> > > spinning a bit, and I'd like to make sure I'm doing this right, and
> > I've
> > > managed to grasp a few things...
> >
> >   The definitive guide is here:
> >
> > http://deployingradius.com/documents/configuration/active_directory.ht
> > m
> > l
> >
> >   It's simple, clear, and contains just enough information to allow
> > you to get it to work.
> >
> >   Alan DeKok.
> > -
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> 
> Yeah, the information in that one is, as you said, simple and "just enough".
> However, it doesn't address either of the two questions I asked.
> 
> 1) Is setting "Auth-Type = ntlm_auth" the correct way for doing what I want,
> or have I mis-configured something so that FreeRadius could work out that it
> needs to use ntlm_auth on its own?
> 2) How do I match a rule against AD Group membership?  This one was
> answered in a previous reply, and I think I can work out the implementation
> details from there, I just need to do some work and testing.
> 
> If anyone knows the answer to the first question, I'd appreciate it.
> 
> John H. Moe
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