Re: Access-challenge timeout on IOS

2013-07-04 Thread David Mitton
Quoting Phil Mayers p.may...@imperial.ac.uk: On 04/07/13 11:00, Franks Andy (RLZ) IT Systems Engineer wrote: Hi, Session-timeout and Idle-timeout are attributes mentioned by the cisco docs but neither of these seem to be what I'm after. Neither are relevant; they're for established

Re: Access-challenge timeout on IOS

2013-07-04 Thread David Mitton
developer to set this value. But there are other 1 minute timers hardwired into the Windows EAP interface that I had to work around. Dave. Quoting Phil Mayers p.may...@imperial.ac.uk: On 04/07/13 14:34, David Mitton wrote: Quoting Phil Mayers p.may...@imperial.ac.uk: On 04/07/13 11:00, Franks

Re: MAC authentication succeeds, port stays unauthorized (allied telesis)

2013-06-07 Thread David Mitton
The NAS device is the final arbiter of allowing access. Even if the authentication succeeds, there may be other things about the connection and the NAS policies that are not met by the port user. Best to check the error log on the NAS. Dave. Quoting Stijn D'haese maill...@stijn-dhaese.be:

Re: [Help] Is that possible to change the reject message that appears at the Windows Pop Up

2013-03-21 Thread David Mitton
Quoting Arran Cudbard-Bell a.cudba...@freeradius.org: On 21 Mar 2013, at 13:26, Jouni Malinen jkmali...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 8:42 PM, Arran Cudbard-Bell a.cudba...@freeradius.org wrote: The old HP switches used to convert the Reply-Message into an EAP-Notification and

Re: Computer authentication

2013-03-05 Thread David Mitton
Quoting Jeremy Schubert jschub...@shaw.ca: Is using a device's MAC address the only way to authenticate a specific machine? --- Jeremy Schubert www.schubertville.com www.schubertschool.com No. In a Windows Domain, one can use the system's workstation name and a credential created and

Re: EAP-TLS Machine-Auth Windows: difference between LAN and WiFi

2012-10-12 Thread David Mitton
The behavior _is_ configurable, but as you have observed for your particular network, the default is not to attempt machine auth. It is configurable on a per-network connection basis, I'm getting fuzzy on if it's adapter or SSID based. If the OP is observing such behavior, he needs to

Re: EAP-TLS Machine-Auth Windows: difference between LAN and WiFi

2012-10-11 Thread David Mitton
I'm sorry, I don't have time right now to help you, but you are on the right track. Windows has a feature Machine Authentication where the station authenticates (using the $hostname and a secret credential created at domain join) with a Domain controller before the user login. On an

Re: NEW PIN MODE

2012-09-15 Thread David Mitton
My information is 2 years old; - RSA only supported SecurID its own EAP protocols, and provided Windows clients for such. (Win XP, Vista, 7) - The RSA supported a RADIUS server which was a subset of the Funk SBR RADIUS server (now a Juniper product) SBR included methods of their own

Re: configure challenge..

2012-09-03 Thread David Mitton
None of the information given in that thread has changed. Understanding it is the key to your answer. Dave. Quoting Rod Luzic rodlu...@yahoo.com: by the way, I meant Access-Challenge below. From: Rod Luzic rodlu...@yahoo.com To:

Re: EAP-PEAP + Windows 7 with SSO and Password change

2012-04-05 Thread David Mitton
Yes, basically, password change operations are not supported by Windows EAP support. Not to mention RADIUS as well. Dave. Quoting c_dor...@gmx.de: Hi, we would like to use freeradius server for setup port access per 802.1x on wired LAN. The plan is to have a guest-vlan for

Re: Windows 7 prompting several times

2012-04-02 Thread David Mitton
Quoting Alan DeKok al...@deployingradius.com: ... i.e. the Windows box is caching the *wrong* password. Go fix it. Ask Microsoft how this is done. In Windows 7, connection setup, there is a check box for remembering credentials, clear it. That gives you some manual control over

Re: Windows 7 prompting several times

2012-03-05 Thread David Mitton
I've seen such things if the authentication takes an extraordinary length of time. Windows EAP client expects a round trip on the order of 30 seconds (or 60, ummm my memory is already fading...) and if EAP doesn't come back in that time, could abort the authentication. Typically another

Re: Radius integration with LDAP (SASL)

2012-01-17 Thread David Mitton
Quoting Alan DeKok al...@deployingradius.com: Phil Mayers wrote: On 17/01/12 14:04, Alan DeKok wrote: I guess he needs to set Auth-Type... I don't know why people construct these Heath Robinson systems that make their lives difficult! Because they believe complicated systems are

RE: Distributing Certificates

2012-01-06 Thread David Mitton
You can do such things as suggested... but you haven't articulated what your goal is and what you will be using the certificates for? 802.1X doesn't require certificates... but you may want to use them depending on what you are trying to do. Dave. Quoting Danner, Mearl

Re: LEAP Authentication?

2011-06-29 Thread David Mitton
Yes, you can get LEAP to work with Cisco and some other devices, but LEAP is a flawed proprietary protocol. When analyzed and found subject to offline dictionary attacks Cisco circled the wagons and threw FUD until FAST was developed and deployed. LEAP has never been publically

Re: Send response to client

2011-06-27 Thread David Mitton
It's even worse than that. Windows XP and Vista supplicants will respond to an EAP notification message (after dropping it on the ground) with the appropriate acknowledgement. The first release of WIndows 7 wouldn't even do that. So if an EAP server sent a Notification message, the

Re: Using tokens for 802.1x auth

2011-03-24 Thread David Mitton
The hotel authentication is typically not done using 802.1x. Or it's simply a shared password. The other piece is a gateway that typically traps your HTTP traffic and forces another authentication before it will forward your traffic to the outside world. Another EAP combination would be PEAP

Re: Unknown CA error in FR Debug

2011-01-24 Thread David Mitton
The typical way to look at certs on a Windows system is to open IE, pull down the Tools menu, select Internet Options On Vista, and Win7 there is a Control Panel selection Internet Options that gets you to the same place. Select the Content tab, Certificate is a button half-way down.

Re: Supplicant for Windows (XP, Vista and W7)

2010-08-19 Thread David Mitton
Windows includes a supplicant that does a number of things. Could you be a bit more specific in what functionality you are looking for? Dave. On 8/19/2010 11:22 PM, rrperez wrote: Hi, Does anyone knows a supplicant that might work on windows platforms such as XP, Vista and Windows 7? --

Re: Flaky AP or borked Config? EAP-PEAP

2010-08-18 Thread David Mitton
On 8/18/2010 02:48 AM, Alan DeKok wrote: Nolan King wrote: Due to some Skypilot APs that do not support EAP-TLS Huh? Access points don't care about the EAP method. Apart from the OP's particular problem, you can be assured that there are APs that unfortunately do care about the EAP method

Re: Re: IP address assignment for the authenticated users in Free

2009-10-20 Thread David Mitton
Just because RADIUS has an attribute defined, doesn't mean the NAS supports it for your use. In general, the IP address assignment attributes are intended for use with NAS's that are point-to-point access routers where the address will be for an "unnumbered" connection, where the link level

Re: Re: Session-Timeout in Access-Challenge (that contains EAP-Message)

2009-07-08 Thread David Mitton
Alan, They most certainly do! I just debugged a case where the Cisco 1200 takes the 30s Session-Timeout that the Microsoft IAS server sends and treats it as a response timeout. (It then aborts the authentication, which I believe is wrong, but that's another story) When doing a

Re: Re: eap-peap username/password problem

2009-06-08 Thread David Mitton
Be careful, the location and content of that information is version (and EAP method) specific. On Vista, there is a connection property for wireless "Cache user information for subsequent connections..." that can be unchecked to require future prompts. I don't know off the top of my head it's in

Re: Re: Reply-message and supplicant

2009-06-08 Thread David Mitton
A couple comments on this thread... The problem with including Reply message text in EAP is that the Reply attribute comes in the Accept or Reject message, which will be carrying the EAP Success or Fail. EAP Success/Faillike a Reject doesn't carry attributes, so a Reply would have to be turned

Re: Is it possible to recognize clients not by their IP addresses?

2008-11-27 Thread David Mitton
Absolutely not. How does the RADIUS server know which NAS is talking to it?It needs to know which secret to use. Dave.Nov 27, 2008 01:01:41 PM, freeradius-users@lists.freeradius.org wrote: Hi!!The format of ${raddbdir} /clients.conf defines NAS by its IP pool.And what if I'd like to have a pool

Re: Re: RSASecurid and PEAP

2008-11-26 Thread David Mitton
I should know better to ask what are you thinking? but let me attempt to explain. The RSA SecurID RADIUS server can authenticate plain text OTPs inside of PEAP (or if you load our EAP client, use SecurID-EAP or Protected-OTP) FreeRADIUS should have no problem proxying that. But as Alan points

Re: Re: generating ACCESS-CHALLENGE from radius server

2008-06-23 Thread David Mitton
Access-Challenge messages are generated by an authentication method that needs them. Look at the auth method you intend to use. Many do not as sufficent info is in the Access-Request.Usually a NAS generates aCHAP challenge locally and includes it in the A-R. EAP methods use a lot of

Re: Re: Machine authentication

2008-05-06 Thread David Mitton
George, Your message came through just fine. But this is a voluntary list of users, and your question falls into an area that over hangs a long way outside of FreeRadius, possibly outside of the expertise in this group. I know a little about this space, so FWIW: First off, Big Picture: to a

Re: RFC 2866 - Accounting ON / Accounting OFF packets

2008-03-13 Thread David Mitton
Accounting-On /-Off events do NOT occur for every session.They are, as the text says, indicators of the global state of the NAS Accounting. Usually you should get an On event when the NAS powers up and RADIUS starts.If a NAS Administrator turns Off accounting, or makes a controlled shut down,

Re: Re: can't get WPA/2 and EAP-TTLS to work

2008-02-15 Thread David Mitton
The defacto "industry standard" for returning 802.11i encryption keys to a Wireless AP is via those Microsoft VSAs. Ridiculous, but that's the way it is. Note: This would be another exception case if someone was building a RADIUS server or proxy that filtered attributes based on Vendor-Id. Dave.

Re: FreeRADIUS and RSA RADIUS Server

2008-02-05 Thread David Mitton
The RSA Authentication Server does not take requests from undefined agents. All Agent Hosts must be defined in the Server's Agent Host list.However, we are talking about RADIUS requests here,from theRSA Server's point of view, the RADIUS server is the agent host making the request to it via the

Re: RADIUS PAP-SecurID Access-Challenge

2006-11-28 Thread David Mitton
On 11/28/2006 04:54 PM, Alan DeKok wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... Of course, for the best security the EAP-POTP method is our recommended authentication protocol. I don't suppose you have server code to contribute? :) The current code wasn't developed for portability, and still has

Re: Radius attributes and APs

2006-11-24 Thread David Mitton
On 11/23/2006 02:09 PM, Alan DeKok wrote: Manuel Sanchez Cuenca wrote: Alan DeKok escribió: Do you have a more specific question? But not all APs enforce the Radius attributes. For example the Linksys wrt54g doesn't takes into account the session timeout attribute. So, can you tell me

Re: FreeRadius working as proxy Radius for RSA ACE Server

2006-11-24 Thread David Mitton
On 11/23/2006 11:34 AM, Alan DeKok wrote: Luis wrote: Hi there, Is there anyone with experience with FreeRadius working as proxy for the RSA ACE Server? Yes. RSA ACE is just a re-branded Funk server. Alan DeKok. Careful here. The RSA SecurID Server, (aka the ACE Server or

RE: MS Vista RC1 and Freeradius 802.1x

2006-09-21 Thread David Mitton
Be aware that the EAP subsystem in Vista has been totally re-architected. There are new APIs and legacy module support. Anything could go wrong. Dave. - Original Message - From: Dourty, Brian R. (IATS) [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: FreeRadius users mailing list

Re: PEAP LDAP confusion

2006-08-19 Thread David Mitton
On 8/18/2006 03:42 PM, Michael Lecuyer wrote: Rob Shepherd wrote: The setup uses PEAP, however am I correct in thinking that the RADIUS server never touches any TLS components. The TLS tunnel is between the WLAN controller and the client right? PEAP - Protected EAP - the protection is the

Re: Does Freeradius support IAPP (802.11f)??

2006-08-14 Thread David Mitton
RADIUS.ORG>Subject: Re: Does Freeradius support IAPP (802.11f)??Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2006 15:52:33 +0800 On 8/11/06, David Mitton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: One should be aware that 802.11f has been deprecated by the IEEE. To use it requiressupport in all your Access Points and the RADIUS server(s). Tha

Re: Does Freeradius support IAPP (802.11f)??

2006-08-11 Thread David Mitton
One should be aware that 802.11f has been deprecated by the IEEE. To use it requiressupport in all your Access Points and the RADIUS server(s). Windows IAS certainly does not support it. Using the hostap only helps if you are using that software for your APs. And it says "minimal". Exactly what

Re: Accounting start/stop packets

2006-06-13 Thread David Mitton
Typically No. The accounting start packet is generated by most NASes when the authentication is approved.Unless there is a static IP address assigned to the port, it will not wait for the DHCP cycle to complete (which could even fail!). Dave. - Original Message -From: "John Williams"

Re: SecurID authentication

2006-06-07 Thread David Mitton
for your help Rgds Darshak - Original Message - From: David Mitton [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: freeradius-users@lists.freeradius.org Sent: Tuesday, June 06, 2006 10:23 PM Subject: RE: SecurID authentication Darshak, I'm not a legal representative, but Michael's response

RE: SecurID authentication

2006-06-06 Thread David Mitton
, but there are details with New Pin assignment and Next Token mode that get messy. The server uses Access-Challenge for them. Also the new server includes EAP support for several methods. So proxy may still be the best path. David Mitton Software Development, RSA Security, Inc. PS: I urge all

Re: Roaming with WPA-Enterprise/Radius

2006-01-04 Thread David Mitton
802.11f is different than most IEEE 802 standards, in that it's a Recommended Practice not a standard. I'm not aware of any implementations, but I'd like to hear of them. Anyways, the IEEE 802 SA has withdrawn 802.11F as an RP as of 12/08/2005. Dave. - Original Message - From: Artur

Re: Diameter Server

2005-10-12 Thread David Mitton
err.. umm.. there is the OpenDiameter project which is more of a tool kit, but you can put together a server from it. A number of people have. http://www.opendiameter.org/ And there are a couple commerical servers; including HP and Interlink Dave. - Original Message - From:

Re: LEAP and PEAP protocols

2005-08-12 Thread David Mitton
LEAP is a proprietary protocol of Cisco's. They have never published a spec, but it has been reverse engineered. (use Google) It is severely flawed. PEAP is in an Internet Draft (v2), but what Microsoft has implemented (v0) and what Cisco supports(v1) are two different derivations of previous

Re: EAP challenge gets ignored with some clients

2005-08-11 Thread David Mitton
Could you be more specific about the fix? How about a KB article number? or keywords that hit on MSDN? Thanks, Dave. - Original Message - From: Alan DeKok [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: FreeRadius users mailing list freeradius-users@lists.freeradius.org Subject: Re: EAP challenge gets ignored

Re: XP supplicant and Secure Cerficate acceptance

2005-08-01 Thread David Mitton
I think your terminology is incorrect. I know for a fact that Funk's software will not accept a self-signed cert. That is a certificate not signed by another CA. What I think you meant, was a having your own private trusted CA root. Where the server and client certs are signed by it. And, yes,

Re: MAC address in Radacct

2005-02-23 Thread David Mitton
as the descriptin in RFC 2865 continues to say... The actual format of the information is site or application specific. UTF-8 encoded 10646 [7] characters are recommended, but a robust implementation SHOULD support the field as undistinguished octets. The

Re: Low cost APs that support EAP/TLS Freeradius??

2004-11-17 Thread David Mitton
On 11/16/2004 09:27 PM, Paul wrote: David Mitton wrote: A Linksys WRT54GS with Sveasoft looks like a bargin functionally. Amazon.com has the WRT54GS for $81.99 - $10 Rebate. Yeah, that's a good price. I use the WRT54GS with the tinyPEAP embedded RADIUS server. The firmware is based

Re: General question on Radius/802.1x

2004-11-17 Thread David Mitton
On 11/17/2004 11:01 AM, Andrea G. Forte wrote: Hi all, I am new to WPA/802.11i and I have a few doubts. I hope you can help me. What is not clear to me is how often a supplicant needs to authenticate to the server...is it everytime the supplicant performs a L2 handoff? The supplicant needs to

Re: General question on Radius/802.1x

2004-11-17 Thread David Mitton
On 11/18/2004 12:20 AM, Andrea G. Forte wrote: On 11/17/2004 11:01 AM, Andrea G. Forte wrote: Hi all, I am new to WPA/802.11i and I have a few doubts. I hope you can help me. What is not clear to me is how often a supplicant needs to authenticate to the server...is it everytime the supplicant

Re: Low cost APs that support EAP/TLS Freeradius??

2004-11-16 Thread David Mitton
On 11/16/2004 10:11 AM, Alan DeKok wrote: Michael Griego [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was looking around yesterday, and I noticed that Linksys' new wireless router (WTV56G I believe) perports to support 802.1x. It retails for about $180 depending on where you look. It's more than just an AP