Two different user-names while using computer authentification with client certificate
Alan DeKok
aland at deployingradius.com
Tue Jan 28 15:54:06 CET 2020
On Jan 28, 2020, at 9:36 AM, uj2.hahn at posteo.de wrote:
> I have a question just for my understanding.
> I installed a Radius client certificate (RadiusClient) on a Win10 client and enabled user authentification
> on this WLAN profile. This all works fine.
That's good.
> Just for my education I switched the client WLAN profile to computer (!) authentification (instead of user),
> just to see what will happen with freeradius.
FreeRADIUS just processes packets it receives. It does NOT create those packets, or any information in them.
> Now the User-Name is the real PC hostname "host/DESKTOP-FLOQN5Q".
> So it seems the outer and the inner tunnel see different User-Names.
> Is this on intention?
Ask Microsoft how their software works.
FreeRADIUS just reports on what it sees. It does not (and can not) cause the Windows system to send different User-Names.
> Any chance to have one User-Name only, e.g. the client certificate name: RadiusClient.
Ask Microsoft how to configure their software.
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Alan DeKok.
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