FreeRADIUS, 802.1x, and multiple user stores

[Jonathan L Ocab]

I believe you shed light onto the AD situation, but one item of note is that my campus' primary user store is OpenLDAP and is what is used by our production FreeRADIUS services.

What I need to do is so our primary AD forest's domain controllers can be used. An Active Directory domain authenticated host/workstation would need to use AD for the user store and anything else would go against OpenLDAP.

But we also have the issue where there are separate AD forests in our campus environment.

I will do some testing in my development environment to leverage ntlm_auth against our main campus AD store.

-j

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> Date: Wed, 01 Aug 2012 10:19:25 -0700
> From: Alan DeKok <aland at deployingradius.com>
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> Subject: Re: FreeRADIUS, 802.1x, and multiple user stores
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> Jonathan L Ocab wrote:
>> My next step is getting 802.1x working such that FreeRADIUS can authenticate users to different Active Directory user stores based on the domain provided.
> 
>  That's not really how Active Directory works.  The various domains
> should all be accessible from one local AD server.  Then, you
> authenticate to that AD server, using the domain.  The AD server figures
> out how to authenticate the user.
> 
>  This is a fundamental limitation in AD.  As a result, it's a
> fundamental limitation in Samba, which is AD compatible.  As a result,
> it's a fundamental limitation in FreeRADIUS, which uses Samba for AD
> authentication.
> 
>> What would be the best way to implement FreeRADIUS such that authorization/authentication requests are confirmed against different Active Directory domains based on the domain information provided with the username?
> 
>  Use the "--domain" parameter to ntlm_auth.
> 
>> Should I light up a new FreeRADIUS instance to correspond to each AD domain (or OpenLDAP) and proxy from the primary FreeRADIUS server handling 802.1x requests?
> 
>  That shouldn't be necessary.
> 
>> Or should I handle it at the site configuration level and load a different 'ldap' module based on the domain provided with the username?
> 
>  No.
> 
>  Alan DeKok.
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