I fully understand that this specific TLS1.2 issue is temporary and doesn't
need to be addressed specifically. But there are many more wpa_supplicant
parameters not covered by the settings spec, and there might be even more
in upcoming releases. NM will always lag behind to some extend.
Therefore, I'd vote for a custom settings field, which allows to specify a
list of key/value pairs as a single string (based on a certain syntax), and
which get's passed thru to wpa_supplicant as a sequence of parameter/value
combos blindly. This would be a flexible way to address any potential
future issues directly. Of course, there's no need to expose such a setting
to GUIs.

I had been hoping for such a feature to exist without being documented (as
it would be one of the first things I'd implement), but it looks like this
is not the case.
Toby
Am 28.01.2016 17:25 schrieb "Dan Williams" <[email protected]>:

> On Thu, 2016-01-28 at 09:50 +0100, Toby wrote:
> > Hi,
> > due to a delay in the upgrade of our corporate radius servers, I
> > temporarily need to deactivate TLSv1.2 in phase1 of WPA2/EAP-PEAP, to
> > bypass a conflict with wpa_supplicant >=2.4. (known issue)
> > In wpa_supplicant.conf this would require a parameter
> > phase="tls_disable_tlsv1_2=0".
> > But this parameter is not covered by the current settings spec,
> > correct?
> > How to deal with this situation?
> > Is there a way to extend a profile with arbitrary wpa_supplicant
> > parameters?
> > Or can I merge stuff from wpa_supplicant.conf with settings
> > transferred via
> > DBUS?
> > Or is excluding this WiFi network from being managed by NM the only
> > valid
> > solution?
>
> Currently, exclusion or downgrading the supplicant to a version that
> does not advertise TLS v1.2 support (eg, downgrade to <= 2.3) are the
> solutions.  I don't think we want to add a setting property for this
> since it will eventually no longer be required, but perhaps a config
> file parameter or some other out-of-band mechanism to disable TLS v1.2
> where needed would be acceptable, and that can be dropped at a future
> date when this is no longer a problem.
>
> Dan
>
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