Leese, MJ (Mark) wrote: > I need to authenticate employees at my lab onto our wireless network > using a Captive Portal and our corporate database (Active Directory). > The Access-Request from the Captive Portal contains a cleartext password > but our Active Directory does not store cleartext passwords. Can someone > please tell me what options I have? Is it possible to use rlm_krb, for > example?
That can be done, but I wouldn't suggest it. Just use LDAP "bind as user". It should work. > Someone suggested I could authenticate the user with an LDAP bind, but I > don't see how this would work. It works. FreeRADIUS supplies the clear-text password to AD, and it returns "Ok/fail". > I'm running FreeRADIUS 1.1.4 but I can update to a newer version any > time. For this, you shouldn't need to upgrade. But it's still likely not a bad idea. Alan DeKok. - List info/subscribe/unsubscribe? See http://www.freeradius.org/list/users.html

