I can attest that the RADIUS auth works for the captive portal, but it would be nice if the RADIUS module would use some form of encryption for communicating with the RADIUS server.
As it stands anyone watching the debug output of the radius server can see the usernames and passwords of all the users using the captive portal in clear text! It is highly unlikely that anyone would be able to sniff the traffic between the PF server and the RADIUS server but if they did your users' info would be amazingly easy to steal. Jake Sallee Godfather Of Bandwidth Network Engineer Fone: 254-295-4658 Phax: 254-295-4221 -----Original Message----- From: Olivier Bilodeau [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, January 27, 2011 4:05 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [Packetfence-users] What's the status with Captive portal RADIUS Authentication ? Hi, Not so long ago someone reported that they couldn't get the authentication::radius module to work with their captive portal. I can't recall the exact details but I wasn't provided a specific error aside from "it doesn't work". At the time, I filed a ticket for it here: #1093: regression in authentication::radius http://www.packetfence.org/bugs/view.php?id=1093 Since then I saw the module used successfully in action. My question is: what's the status? can I close the ticket? Cheers! -- Olivier Bilodeau [email protected] :: +1.514.447.4918 *115 :: www.inverse.ca Inverse inc. :: Leaders behind SOGo (www.sogo.nu) and PacketFence (www.packetfence.org) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Special Offer-- Download ArcSight Logger for FREE (a $49 USD value)! Finally, a world-class log management solution at an even better price-free! Download using promo code Free_Logger_4_Dev2Dev. Offer expires February 28th, so secure your free ArcSight Logger TODAY! http://p.sf.net/sfu/arcsight-sfd2d _______________________________________________ Packetfence-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/packetfence-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Special Offer-- Download ArcSight Logger for FREE (a $49 USD value)! Finally, a world-class log management solution at an even better price-free! Download using promo code Free_Logger_4_Dev2Dev. Offer expires February 28th, so secure your free ArcSight Logger TODAY! http://p.sf.net/sfu/arcsight-sfd2d _______________________________________________ Packetfence-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/packetfence-users
